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Data Analyst Vs Data SC Vs Data Engineer

The document compares the roles of data analyst, data scientist, and data engineer by outlining their primary responsibilities, skills, tools, goals, and example tasks. It details how each role focuses on different parts of the data lifecycle from analysis and modeling to infrastructure and processing.

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Data Analyst Vs Data SC Vs Data Engineer

The document compares the roles of data analyst, data scientist, and data engineer by outlining their primary responsibilities, skills, tools, goals, and example tasks. It details how each role focuses on different parts of the data lifecycle from analysis and modeling to infrastructure and processing.

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Aspect Data Analyst Data Scientist Data Engineer

Primary Role Analyze data to Solve complex Design, build,


derive insights problems using and maintain
and inform data using data pipelines
decision-making advanced techniques and infrastructure
Focus Exploratory Predictive Data processing
analysis, and prescriptive and storage
descriptive analysis,
statistics machine learning,
deep learning
Skills SQL, Excel, Programming Programming
Data visualization (Python, R, etc.), (Python, Java,
Basic statistics Machine learning, Scala, etc.),
Statistical Big Data
analysis, technologies
Data visualization Cloud platforms
Tools Excel, SQL, Python, R, Hadoop, Spark,
Tableau, Power BI, Jupyter Notebooks, Kafka,
TensorFlow, Airflow,
PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes
Responsibility Data preparation, Problem formulation Data architecture,
Exploratory and hypothesis ETL (Extract,
analysis, testing, advanced Transform, Load),
Reporting, modeling, Data pipelines,
Dashboards interpretation Performance
of results optimization
End Goal Support decision- Extract insights Create efficient
making, and develop and scalable data
Business insights, predictive models, pipelines for
Trend analysis optimize processes data processing
and strategies
Data Use Historical data Historical and Raw and processed
real-time data data for analysis
Typical Questions What happened? Why did it happen? How to process,
What trends are What will happen? store, and move
present? data efficiently?
Aspect Data Analyst Data Scientist Data Engineer
Example Tasks Create sales Build a Design data
reports, analyze recommendation architectures,
customer system for a develop ETL
demographics, e-commerce site, processes,
A/B testing Develop a fraud optimize query
detection model performance
Collaboration With business Cross-functional With data analysts
stakeholders, teams (business, and data scientists
data engineers data analysts, for data needs,
engineers), data availability
subject matter and requirements
experts

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