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.


But how a Data Analyst is different?

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

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