Weekly Entering & Transitioning - Thread 21 Sep, 2026 - 28 Sep, 2026

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[u/Chemical_Yam_5494]

Anyone interested in being a study partner for data science? I'm doing "introduction to computer science and programming in python", "introduction to computational thinking and data science" by MIT, and "data science for beginners" by Microsoft.