thank you . <| sep |> I want one of their jerseys now , the color scheme is so cool , and I ' m from Bashkortostan , so double the nostalgia . <| sep |> It ' s a classic . Depressing , but good . <| sep |> i caught one at Haynes park in the parking lot <| sep |> I have over 1100 hours in TF 2 on a Macbook Air <| sep |> Data Science still realistically requires at least a M . S . in a relevant field , realistically Stats or CS , but there are DS specific degree programs out there now . Exam 4 C has some overlap with the Casella Berger statistical theory sequence you would take in any reputable statistics or data science program . Questions for you to think about Would you rather be a spreadsheet monkey or a R S A S P ythonSQLHivePigSparkScala monkey ? Do you want to go to graduate school ? Do you like writing proofs enough to survive math beyond that required of actuaries ? Okay , MissMister IPassedAnExamAlready , input both the pay trajectories from DW Simpson into Excel and the average starting data scientist pay assume either 3 % annual raise or job hopping every three years and commensurate pay increase for the next twenty years , less the two extra years you put in grad school to be a data scientist . Which makes more money , and is the time spent in grad school worth it ? None of the data scientists I know are actually in it for the money . We ' re just geeks that get all tickled pink from playing with whatever . Do you play with these things in your free time ? Seriously , go install R and RStudio if you haven ' t already , find an interesting tutorial , and have fun . If you ' re not having fun with it then go find something else to do , because data preparation is far too tedious if you ' re not getting that payoff at the end .