Beginners road map to learning Data Science (from an ex-school teacher’s perspective with a MSc in Data Science)

In 2014, I became a computer science teacher within secondary and sixth form schools. While you could say it was fantastic teaching the students’ new skills and seeing them grow and go from no coding experience to be confident programmers was indeed a spectacle to behold. However, I personally found my own growth within the computing world became very stagnant. Due to time restrictions within a typical teaching environment, I was not truly able to develop my own skills past what was expected at GCSE and A-Level. That led me to set goals within the summer holidays to try something…