Becoming a Big Data Scientist: Skills You Need to Know and How to Learn Them by @ricknotdelgado via @Datafloq

To say that data scientists are in high demand would actually be sort of an understatement. With big data being utilised more and more within organisations, executives want men and women who know big data inside and out. The number of data scientist positions is on the rise and growing each year. This demand is reflected in the amount of money being paid to data scientists, with the median salary for computer and information research scientists hitting more than $110,000 in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics. But it’s not enough to be considered a data scientist, you need to have the right skills to get noticed above your peers.

I would suggest online courses via Udemy, Coursera, etc and try to get into Kaggle to enter some competitions (you will have to pass tests to get in there).