Dataish person here. If you search for Ml/ds you’ll get technical content that won’t help you much or fluff. You’d be better served by looking at companies you know do DS and searching for business problems they solved with it. Examples: Amazon boosts sales by recommending products. Visa stops fraud by doing fraud detection. Walmart manages inventory by doing sales forecasting .

Once you’ve found a use case that could be relevant to your stakeholders you can dive into the technicals