Well, OP says [0] they're a PhD candidate, so maybe take 'non-CS majors' quite literally, in terms of where it's hyphenated.
> High schoolers are really just doing some web course and then getting data scientist jobs?
so my response was:
> No - or at least this isn't evidence of that - the author is a postgraduate student and the target audience appears to be other graduates/university students.
The course aims at students of business administration. What do they usually do? Maximize some profit function. So, my background is really more traditional Operations Research.