Some suggestion for career in data science or predictive modeling I am looking to choose my career in the area of decision science or predictive modeling and I am aware that this is kind of opinion based but I would like to have some suggestion from experts that I can use it to build my career in correct path. What are the tools should I know like R, SAS or any other. What are the thinks I should know to work in a data science or machine learning or predictive modeling. For me I am having problem in identifying steps that I should follow. Please suggest me some steps to follow.
First of all I should say you question probably is an off-topic and will be closed soon.

Discussed at this SE site

Anyway I can target you to similar questions discussed at this SE site already:


Statistics + Computer Science = Data Science?
Starting my career as Data Scientist, is Software Engineering experience required?


Cross Validated SE

A set of relevant questions at Cross Validated Stack Exchange:


https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/careers


Data scientist map

This is good infographics of data science knowledge you might need to start a career (Link to image):



Careers SE

Also, simple "data scientist" querying of Careers SE site 
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=data+scientist&amp;location= will lead you to the following knowlege "tags":


R
bigdata
data-visualization
hadoop
mapreduce
scala
python
matlab


etc.