One of the biggest surprises I had while learning data science was realizing that Python isn't the hard part.
You can learn Python in a few weeks. You can become comfortable with pandas pretty quickly. You can even train a machine learning model by following a tutorial.
But none of that means you understand your data.
That's where statistics comes in.
A lot of beginners (myself included) focus on learning tools first because they're exciting. New libraries, dashboards, machine learning models. Statistics often feels like something you can come back to later.
