Data Professional Definitions

Data analyst vs data scientist vs data engineer

TC Blanchard
Towards Data Science
4 min readFeb 3, 2020

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Lately I’ve read a lot of attempts at defining data scientist and differentiating it from other data-centric roles. The terms ‘data scientist’, ‘data analyst’, and ‘data engineer’ are obviously interrelated. But recently I’ve seen some weird definitions of them.

The Importance of Definitions

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Data scientist with a neuroscience PhD writing on Substack about science, science fiction, and philosophy: https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/about