Start coding today!

I've been bonding with DeepSeek for the past few days, employing it as a career guidance counselor, since it's much more "knowledgeable" compared to anyone I can possibly ask in real life (for free). One thing I'm currently considering is that I may get into data analytics.

So a few things I've digested from what DeepSeek had to say during my consultations:

• In the private sector, data analytics is important in marketing and sales projections. In government, especially in environmental concerns, it can be useful for things like climate risk projections.
• A background in data analytics can also help to build businesses from the ground up, especially for businesses that can offer data-driven solutions. Or otherwise, if the business to be built it is intended to be more traditional, data analytics can be used for analyzing customer or visitor behavior for risk management.
• Relearning programming based on outdated knowledge (I earned my degree in 2011) is "manageable with a structured approach" and is encouraged.
• "Start coding today!"

The suggestions were to look into learning Python and R, so I'm gonna try a bit of each.

I hope to be the kind of person who can demonstrate something useful from this in, say, 6 months.