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"There is no wind that blows right for the sailor who doesn't know where the harbor is."

Decide and have clear what is the question, then look for the answer.

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For the fun of learn, pick anything you can do and put some time of it. If you are like me, you will read some info about X and and if it pick you interest go ahead.

But without a direction, you will waste time. You will dismiss things that are good and double-focus in things that not..

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"I am facing a lot of challenging (which ones?) data analytics and software development problems during the day (which ones?)"

"Data analytics (and his not-famous cousin reports)" is far more about re-shape and clean data than do cool algorithms. The last mille is the easy and the 909% (yep, 909%, not a typo!) is the hard, in opposite to normal development.

Having a clean, well defined schema/database/warehouse/etc is the thing here. Run your super-fancy mathy-thingy on it? Others have solved that!

Most likely, non-normal-dev will have a bigger impact on this kind of jobs, so not just focus in tech.. (and I don't drink the fallacy that your selection of tools not matter. But is also a mistake think that are the only thing that matter).



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