What Is the Difference Between a Data Engineer, a Data Scientist, and a Data Analyst?

“Big Data” is a broad field that covers at least five disciplines and three job titles. While data science, data engineering, and data analytics are definitely overlapping career paths, there are important differences between them. Here’s the breakdown.

Dr. Derek Austin 🥳
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 17, 2022

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