Hi Fishes, How difficult is to become a data scientist for a person with non technical background?

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Very much. Data science is now no more restricted into just model building. It has now become more of ML engineer role which needs knowledge of great programming skills for data cleaning, processing etc. Now DS also needs knowledge of devops and cloud platforms etc. for deployment. If you have more than 7+ yrs of non-IT, non coding exp do not switch into DS.

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Agreed.

A Math/Statistics background will be more beneficial than IT. Python is a very easy language to learn.

Let me specify more details. I have done python course, have good knowledge of statistics (PCA, Clustering, linear regression, logistics regression and random forest ) . Also I have used AWS EC2 but from user point of view. Am i good to start searching for data science job or still need to prepare ?

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