Data Engineering — the Cousin of Data Science, is Troublesome

By KDnuggets - 2021-01-22

Description

A Data Scientist must be a jack of many, many trades. Especially when working in broader teams, understanding the roles of others, such as data engineering, can help you validate progress and be aware ...

Summary

  • A Data Scientist must be a jack of many, many trades.
  • When a traditional company considers exploiting their data, the most efficient and first-step action should be improving the data engineering process.
  • Usually, we cannot expect a “full-stack” analyst, but it is necessary that we have someone who can communicate with both engineering people and management people.
  • Although a clear allocation of work is important for high efficiency, a guru of every data tool is indeed attractive.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.37)
  2. Database (0.21)
  3. Security (0.11)

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