How do I become a data scientist - from Quora

How do I become a data scientist - from Quora

http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-a-data-scientist

This question in Quora was answered very well, and it gave me some ideas.

First, I should really learn Hadoop, study statistics, learn more about MapReduce, and take a plunge at R, etc.

Data science is probably going to be very cool thing to do in the next 10 years.