I agree that being able to hack up a prototype could really make someone stand out as a data scientist. The Insight Data Fellows program mentioned in the artic

I agree that being able to hack up a prototype could really make someone stand out as a data scientist. The Insight Data Fellows program mentioned in the article has a 6 week program where the focus is on learning enough software development to hack a prototype by the end of the program. That could be a good way to go.