I’m not a data scientist but I’ve been trained for it (as part of my computer science degree) and I’ve worked in a bunch of related fields. I wholly endorse this take by Vicki Boykis on the state of data science and what you need to be successful at it.

1. Learn SQL

2. Learn a programming language extremely well and learn programming concepts

3. Learn how to work in the cloud

https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/02/13/data-science-is-different/