Question for the data scientists out there: is it more straightforward to become a data scientist from a software engineering background or from a math backgrou

Question for the data scientists out there: is it more straightforward to become a data scientist from a software engineering background or from a math background? Data science is a varied field, but from what I've heard a lot of the work is munging data (which is a fairly easy task for a skilled software person). Also, I'm glad the author added the twitter endorsement to the article --I've been considering creating a twitter account, and the fact that the author found it so useful helps with my decision to devote time to creating an account.