Self-teach data science, background in biochemistry

Is self-teaching DS a good route to go if I want to land an entry-level job in data science a year or so from now?

For some background: I graduated cum laude in 2020 with a BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and a Math minor, focused on Statistics. My Honors thesis was a public health/statistics-based project in which I did data analysis in R of infectious disease incidence rates in CA. Since then, I haven't looked at R. I …

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