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. Data Engineering Data Science
Cleans and Organizes (big)data.
Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures
Performs descriptive statistics and analysis to
1. (such as databases and large-scale processing
develop insights, build models and solve business
systems)
need.
SAP, Oracle, Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Riak,
SPSS, R, Python, SAS, Stata and Julia to build
2. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, neo4j, Hive, and Sqoop.
models. Scala, Java, and C#.
Scala, Java, and C#.
Architecture will support the requirements of the Large volumes of data from internal and external
3.
business sources to answer the business
Employ sophisticated analytics programs, machine
4. Discover opportunities for data acquisition learning and statistical methods to prepare data for
use in predictive and prescriptive modeling
Develop data set processes for data modeling,
5. Explore and examine data to find hidden patterns
mining and production
Employ a variety of languages and tools (e.g. Automate work through the use of predictive and
6.
scripting languages) to marry systems together prescriptive analytics
Recommend ways to improve data reliability,
7. Communicating findings to decision makers
efficiency and quality
Focuses on designing and building the infrastructure
Focuses on analyzing and interpreting data to
8. and tools needed to support data processing and
extract insights and make predictions.
analysis.
Requires a strong background in statistics, Requires a strong background in computer science,
9.
mathematics, and computer science. software engineering, and data management.
Typically involves working with structured and Involves designing and building data pipelines to
10. unstructured data sets, and using statistical and move and process data, and ensuring that the data
machine learning techniques to extract insights. is accurate, reliable, and secure.
Involves optimizing data processing systems for
Involves developing and testing predictive models,
11. performance and scalability, and managing data
and communicating insights to stakeholders.
storage and access.
Often works with data analysts, business analysts, Often works with software developers,
12. and domain experts to understand the data and its infrastructure engineers, and database
context. administrators to design and build data systems.
Examples of tools and technologies used include Examples of tools and technologies used include
13. Python, R, SQL, Jupyter Notebooks, and machine Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, SQL databases, and ETL
learning libraries like scikit-learn and TensorFlow. (extract, transform, load) tools.
Data Engineering Vs Data Science