Who is a Data Scientist? How does he differ from a Data Analyst?

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Data Science is the fact of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting large amounts of data for driving insights, to help a business improve, using advanced technologies. A term coined by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher in 2008, as the first claims, to define their jobs at Linkedin and Facebook.

A Data Scientist is someone who is data-driven with high-level technical skills, capable of building complex algorithms using large amounts of data, to answer questions and drive strategy in the organization. The responsibilities and main tasks of a Data Scientist may vary from a company to another, depending on its size, its type, etc. The role of a Data scientist can include Data Collection, Cleansing, Analytics, and Data Visualization in a small company, just ML Algorithms in a big company, and all the below in a medium-sized company.

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But how a Data Analyst is different?

There is a lot of grey area with many job titles…

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Love for Data

I am the master of my fate – and the captain of my destiny | Nelson Mandela

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life | Plato

While pursuing a career in Data Science – or for any field for that manner – a few things are important to notice. As Data Science has been called “the sexiest job in the 21s century”, many people want to learn it and (in my opinion) earn more money. But why is learning Data Science nothing different than learning to be an engineer, car repair man, doctor, lawyer, etc.?

For me the main factor is: ‘Do what you love’. This means, you should do what interests you, what makes you wake up in the morning all excited and full of energy. And that is data for me. My entire life I have been, unknowingly…

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