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strictnein on Nov 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the...

Can't answer whether to learn R or Julia, but for a more general education on Data Science, this book might be a really good fit for you:

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

https://www.amazon.com/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informat...

All the work is done in Excel. I enjoyed the book quite a bit. Author is Chief Data Scientist for MailChimp.

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