If you look for this in Google there are many websites ready to make you data scientist as this is a profession in demand right now and in future there is going to be further need to data science professionals. The most voted (top) Answer to this question on Quora says there isn’t a science area defined as Data Science. However there are Data Scientists :). So who are these people? These are the people with coding skills mixed with statistical knowledge or skills who work to make DATA useful in many different ways and aagin there are two kinds of them:
Type A and Type B, Where A stands for Analyst and B stands for Builder. Type A are those with most statistical knowledge while Type are with strong coding background.
Well, so If you are neither a statistician nor an experienced coder, then can you still become a data scientist? The answer is Yes. So, where to start..with coding or statistics?