Being a Data Scientist is one of the hottest career prospects of today and the world is chasing people who are up for it. It is future and the present. And if you are up for being a Data Scientist every enterprise wants, then we got a small checklist for you to evaluate where you stand and how long the journey is

Strong Academics

A very strong educational backgrounds reflects your gravity and depth of knowledge necessary to be the ace Data Scientist. Earning at least a Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields gives you the base skills needed to process and make sense of Big Data Math and Statistics, Computer Science and Engineering.

Other necessary prerequisites include

R Programming

Python Coding

Hadoop Platform

SQL Database/Coding

Apache Spark

Machine Learning and AI

Data Visualization

Understanding Unstructured data