Did academics prepare you for your role, or for the DS/ML/AI field?

I browse through post often and general have limited understanding of what is being discussed. I can understand the very basics but the more indepth the convo goes the less I'm able to follow.

I currently work as a BI developer, use SQL quite a bit and PowerBI, power automate.

My goal is to eventually dive into Data Science. At this time I would say I am no where close to being ready. I am enrolled amd planning to start …

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