Do you have a PhD? If you do, it's going to help a lot with the transition.
Skills for someone like you to work on - Python, the Python data ecosystem, machine learning, deep learning, being a good software developer.
Things not to worry about right now - Kubernetes, DevOps, cloud providers.
You don't need JavaScript. Don't learn any Tableau/PowerBI and don't apply for jobs that require them unless you want a more analytics/business intelligence focused role. Or do learn them if you want to go in that direction but those jobs are quite different even if they have the same job
title.
(If a job description asks for TensorFlow/PyTorch and PowerBI/Tableau, it means that they have no idea what they're looking for whatsoever.)
Maybe I should have started there - figure out if you want a more analytics/product/decision-making kind of role or more of an applied ML kind of role and then focus on that skillset. For the applied ML kind of data science job, you need the skills that I listed, for the other kind you need the stats background that you already have, some SQL, much less coding and a couple of BI tools.
Skills for someone like you to work on - Python, the Python data ecosystem, machine learning, deep learning, being a good software developer.
Things not to worry about right now - Kubernetes, DevOps, cloud providers.
You don't need JavaScript. Don't learn any Tableau/PowerBI and don't apply for jobs that require them unless you want a more analytics/business intelligence focused role. Or do learn them if you want to go in that direction but those jobs are quite different even if they have the same job title.
(If a job description asks for TensorFlow/PyTorch and PowerBI/Tableau, it means that they have no idea what they're looking for whatsoever.)
Maybe I should have started there - figure out if you want a more analytics/product/decision-making kind of role or more of an applied ML kind of role and then focus on that skillset. For the applied ML kind of data science job, you need the skills that I listed, for the other kind you need the stats background that you already have, some SQL, much less coding and a couple of BI tools.