Well done! As a data scientist, I can say that your curriculum is spot on.
And I also think you're taking the right approach building/hacking/doing rather than going to an institution. This stuff is so new that I find myself spending 5-10% of my time just trying to stay up on the latest tech.
One thing I would add though, data science is really 3 things usually: business knowledge, hacking and lastly stats/machine learning. The stats piece is shockingly easy as more and more modules/packages/libraries make it possible to create/train a model in 2 lines of code. (Applying the right model to your data set is difficult.)
The other shocking thing is that really, 80% of my time is probably spent hacking, and most of that is just spent on getting data.
And I also think you're taking the right approach building/hacking/doing rather than going to an institution. This stuff is so new that I find myself spending 5-10% of my time just trying to stay up on the latest tech.
One thing I would add though, data science is really 3 things usually: business knowledge, hacking and lastly stats/machine learning. The stats piece is shockingly easy as more and more modules/packages/libraries make it possible to create/train a model in 2 lines of code. (Applying the right model to your data set is difficult.)
The other shocking thing is that really, 80% of my time is probably spent hacking, and most of that is just spent on getting data.