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To close out our series on data and analytics roles and why they are important to business, we’re going to explore the position of data engineer. Unlike data analysts, who focus on understanding business data, or data scientists, who leverage data to make business predictions, data engineers have an entirely different focus. In our introductory […]

We’ve been exploring the three major areas of data and analytics roles common to the modern data team. In our last post, we took a deep dive into the different types of data analysts out there—all tasked with describing the current state of a business. Similar to data analysts, data scientists collect and analyze business

In our post laying out the major analytics roles, data scientist, data engineer, and data analyst, we said that… In the broadest sense, a data analyst takes the data collected by a business and uses it to describe what’s going on. These days, taking care of business means dealing with lots and lots of data.

If you’re trying to build out a great data team in your company, you’ve probably noticed that there are lots (and lots and lots) of analytics and data roles out there. And so many of those data job titles sound confusingly similar. it can be hard to make sense of it all, even if you’re