If you work as a data analyst and have a masters that included statistics, What's missing to bridge the gap to data science?

I work as a data analyst doing ad hocs and daily/weekly reports. I use SQL to extract the data but other than that it's all manual in excel, they have no interest in powerBI or R. They won't let me use power query or macros/VBA.

I did a lot of R in my masters and I did courses on statistics, like linear regression and different parametric and non parametric tests and when to use them.

How is data science similar …

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