Life as a data analyst in a research organization

10 key ways data roles are different in an institution where data scientists don’t exist

Emily A. Halford
Towards Data Science
10 min readMar 11, 2021

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There are so many articles and social media posts out there attempting to define the difference between data analyst and data scientist roles, a goal that I’ve never quite understood. This distinction varies so widely from industry to…

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