I'm not sure which is more annoying:
-going through years of education in pure mathematics without this kind of tutorial
-not having come up with this method myself, when it's so close to the dumbed-down edutainment software of the 90's
Every university course should start with at least a day of instruction written in this style.
[kicks dirt]
It’s not an intro to time series or data analysis, but it’s a great intro to Postgres, db administration, and etl that follows a fun and compelling storyline. The presentation is different, but the “edutainment” style is similar.
Towards the middle of the chapter they start asking intuitive questions about how coefficients in the power-series map to the real-life concepts they've been discussing "childishly" up until then.
It's a major turning point and I wonder if you just didn't get the opportunity to see that shift. It's infantilizing right up until it isn't.