[kghose]

You could offer to intern at a data science place and start in their user interface/visualization end. Then as you interact more with the people doing statistical analyses you could figure out if that's something that you would like and get pointers from them what books to read/courses to take.

[sciprog]

That's a great suggestion, thanks. In your experience, have you run across any self-taught analysts, or do they typically have a background in a quantitative field?

[kghose]

I'm not in industry, but I do a lot of data analysis and enjoy it. I'm effectively self taught. I think beyond a certain level most people are self-taught.