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Re:Ask HN: What tools do Data Scientists use most commonly? by mswen on Sunday October 26, 2014 @10:42PM (#8513509)
Everything that you have mentioned is good. I would really focus on understanding a wide range of traditional statistics, ranging from various descriptive and exploratory techniques, to dimension reduction and latent factor discovery as well as a variety of regression techniques. Then dig into the whole machine learning space as you already suggested.

I would also get very comfortable with SQL - much of the data that you will work with in an enterprise setting will be accessible through SQL querying or some close variant.

If you come from a programming background Python will be more sensible and accessible for you as you learn. If you come from a more classical research background then R will generally be a more comfortable place to start.

Enjoy the journey

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