Learning Without Limits: How Indigenous Tribes Prepared Me To Master Data Science

This is the first in a series of posts on applying Tim Ferriss' accelerated learning framework to Data Science. My goal is to become a world-class (top 5%) Data Scientist in 6 months, while open-sourcing everything I find and learn along the way. Here's the story behind the journey and an invitation to follow along: There I was, ten yards out, staring my dinner in the face. The only problem was, the wild boar was still alive. For the past 4 weeks I had been backpacking solo throughout Southeast Asia, and just yesterday had decided to spend the final 2 days of my trip doing jungle survival training in Bario, Malaysia.