Data Science and automation are and will be the foundation of the post-COVID-19 world. if you have a passion for data like myself it is a good idea to move into that career.
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence”
Colin Powell
If you want a head start Learning/working with Python and R.
This amazing open-source stack will give you just that. this way you avoid any overloading yourself with information on setting an environment, using Linux, etc…, and the best part is the “individual edition” is free!.
Anaconda FREE Individual Edition
Your data science toolkit
With over 20 million users worldwide, the open-source Individual Edition (Distribution) is the easiest way to perform Python/R data science and machine learning on a single machine. Developed for solo practitioners, it is the toolkit that equips you to work with thousands of open-source packages and libraries.
Link: https://www.anaconda.com/
Make sure to register for the demo. it sums things up nicely in 12 minutes.
Those already working with python. the py version in this stack is 3.7 not 3.8.