hi,
see data scientist profession is a sub division of software engineering. to become a data science you must have knowledge about the statistics, statistical analysis software like ruby, perl, r programming, some of the software tools like tableue desktop, spss etc. so with out the software programming knowledge you can not become a data scientist. however you may take job as a software engineer and may grow your career and switch to data science field.
hope you may understand.
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