Bananape4l

Sorry this is late, but many people in the r/datascience sub have been telling everyone that data science is not a beginner's field, not an entry-level job, and that you're hopeless without either a phd, publications, or "domain knowledge" ... while i agree that a certain mathematical maturity would be required to be effective, their narrow view seemingly contradicts yours that "any age isn't too late to learn."

what level of education is required to be truly effective?
would you or your friends hire early-career data scientists? or is it truly just a field of adjacent transfers, for experts by experts?

thanks

python has this thing called pep8 checker you can copy and paste your code thru or if you use any respectable ide it will incorporate these rules into it and teach you good style not to have these issues and write pretty python.