Self-Studying w/ Audited Coursera & YouTube

I'm new to data science and I'm planning on getting my masters in Machine Intelligence one day in the future (not sure yet). But for now, I want to self-study data science, ML, and a bit of data engineering to get a job in data science before I do the masters. I won't be buying the courses on Coursera because a close friend who's a software engineer strongly advised against paying for any certificates/courses online for compsci cause most of …

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