In this presentation, we will decode the basic differences between data scientist, data analyst and data engineer, based on the roles and responsibilities, skill sets required, salary and the companies hiring them. Although all these three professions belong to the Data Science industry and deal with data, there are some differences that separate them. Every person who is aspiring to be a data professional needs to understand these three career options to select the right one for themselves. Now, let us get started and demystify the difference between these three professions.
We will distinguish these three professions using the parameters mentioned below:
1. Job description
2. Skillset
3. Salary
4. Roles and responsibilities
5. Companies hiring
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2. What’s in it for you?
Job Description
Skillset
Salary
Roles and Responsibilities
Companies Hiring
3. A data scientist is one who
uses advanced level of data
techniques to derive to business
conclusions
He/she is the senior most in the
team and have an in-depth
knowledge of statistics, data
handling and machine learning
They take the inputs from Data
Engineers and Analysts and
formulate actionable insights for
the business
Data
Scientist
4. A data scientist is one who
uses advanced level of data
techniques to derive to business
conclusions
He/she is the senior most in the
team and have an in-depth
knowledge of statistics, data
handling and machine learning
They take the inputs from Data
Engineers and Analysts and
formulate actionable insights for
the business
Data
Scientist
A data analyst is an entry-level
member into the data analytics
team
He/she needs to be good in
technical skills and know the
basics of data handling,
modeling and reporting
They can move into the roles of
Data Engineer and Data
Scientist with more experience
Data
Analyst
5. A data scientist is one who
uses advanced level of data
techniques to derive to business
conclusions
He/she is the senior most in the
team and have an in-depth
knowledge of statistics, data
handling and machine learning
They take the inputs from Data
Engineers and Analysts and
formulate actionable insights for
the business
Data
Scientist
A data analyst is an entry-level
member into the data analytics
team
He/she needs to be good in
technical skills and know the
basics of data handling,
modeling and reporting
They can move into the roles of
Data Engineer and Data
Scientist with more experience
Data
Analyst
Data
Engineer
A data engineer is an
intermediary between the data
analyst and the data scientist
He/she needs to have expertise
in developing, constructing and
maintaining architectures
Generally, they work on big data
and submit their reports to the
data scientist to analyze
12. Roles and Responsibilities
• Mine and clean data and
process unstructured data
• Designing models to work on
big data
• Infer and interpret the
analysis on big data
• Lead the entire data team to
achieve their goals
• Deliver conclusions that have
a direct business impact
Data
Scientist
13. Roles and Responsibilities
• Mine and clean data and
process unstructured data
• Designing models to work on
big data
• Infer and interpret the
analysis on big data
• Lead the entire data team to
achieve their goals
• Deliver conclusions that have
a direct business impact
• Gather information from a
database through querying
• Process data and provide
summary reports
• Use basic algorithms in their
work
• Have core skills in statistics,
data munging, data
visualization and exploratory
data analysis
Data
Scientist
Data
Analyst
14. Roles and Responsibilities
• Mine and clean data and
process unstructured data
• Designing models to work on
big data
• Infer and interpret the
analysis on big data
• Lead the entire data team to
achieve their goals
• Deliver conclusions that have
a direct business impact
• Mine through data for
insights
• Convert erroneous data into
a usable form for further
analysis
• Write queries on data
• Maintain the design and
architecture of data
• Create large data
warehouses using ETL
Data
Scientist
Data
Analyst
Data
Engineer
• Gather information from a
database through querying
• Process data and provide
summary reports
• Use basic algorithms in their
work
• Have core skills in statistics,
data munging, data
visualization and exploratory
data analysis