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With your current skills you'd get likely get stuck in a "data engineer" role which honestly kind of sucks. IMO you are better off buckling down to learn statistics and then some front end analysis tools like R and Tableau. Unfortunately there is not really a shortcut for learning stats.

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I am not looking for shortcuts, but then I do not want to be researcher. My goals are simple, learn which shall be able to fetch me revenue.

Let me know what and how much, and I shall put in efforts.

In my experience, even though data science is touted as a hot field, the reality is that it's kind of boring and doesn't pay more than other types of programming. It's hard to give specific advice because I think you're operating on incorrect assumptions.

what according to you are the incorrect assumptions which I am operating on. My goal is to make somewhere around 60 - 70 USD/hr. and am willing to invest 2-3 months of learning.

And I already have 2 years of professional programming experience in Python.

The incorrect assumption is that I don't think you'll necessarily make more money by being a data science consultant rather than a django/flask developer.

I don't know where you live but where I live you can make 60-70 USD/hr with the skills you already have. Like, make json API server for a mobile app with Flask, that pays anywhere from $50-150/hr in my experience. As someone else mentioned, what you get paid has more to do with where you live and who you work for.

Let me know what and how much

The parent commenter did let you know what.

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