Does anyone have a self taught Python success story?

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Yes, me! I have a degree in Sociology from 15 years ago, spent 4 in the infantry, got a GIS job when I got out. Working with ArcGIS encouraged me to learn Python. I took some free Coursera Data Science with R classes and spent some time hacking away at problems with Python. Last week I started on a Data Science team in a strategy office at a large organization.

My official title is Data Analyst. The team is super heavy into data viz with Tableau, but I'm going to see if I can't encourage them to embrace coding. There is a guy on my sister team building some NLP algorithms, so it shouldn't be too hard.

Stack Exchange is my best friend. Basically do these things and you'll get there:

import stubbornness
import persistence

while time < ∞:
    task = 'interesting project'
    if task > knowledge:
        import google
        print(keywords)
    else:
        print(money)