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Re:Mathematicians becoming data scientists by Almaviva on Monday February 27, 2017 @11:53AM (#13745587)
> you cannot pick this up in any meaningful way in a "few months" of after hours/weekend study

You can't pick up coding like this either. See Peter Norvig's famous "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" article. The delta in the wisdom you obtain, between a few side projects over months and battle hardened experience with real products and code bases over years, is immense.

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