Ok. I’m not suggesting that everyone needs to become a fully-credentialed data scientist. But these days, learning core data skills may provide as much value as basic financial literacy or knowledge of a simple coding language.

This isn’t just about your career: data has grown far beyond the world of IT professionals. It’s getting harder to imagine any significant life events that analytics can’t help secure and enhance.

And the good news is that acquiring those basic data skills doesn’t have to cost you any money or take much time. There’s a lot of sophisticated number crunching going on using plain old spreadsheets, for instance.

But even getting up to speed with the far more versatile world of Python and Jupyter Notebooks can happen faster than you might think.

freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel is host to a quick and dirty course of my own that’ll get you started. The rest of the course curriculum that’s available (for free) on my website can finish the job.

But why should you bother?

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