Beyond Data Science Toolkits

In Data Science Central, a post by Peter Higdon about a number of resources for the beginning data scientist.  Courses, videos, definitions, etc.   Usefully done.  In general the whole topic is an umbrella over many technologies we learned long ago ... and have in our tool kits, that need to be re labeled and sometimes reconstructed for easier use.   I will add:  Beyond your set of tools.  You will need many things at hand, the materials you will need to work on (the data), A place to do your work (A workbench) and measurement tools to know you are done.   Also, you need a customer who will pay for your work. Hopefully a rational customer who knows or can be convinced that your work is useful.   Not as easy as it sounds.