Would you rather be a data scientist, software engineer, or a mix of the two?
Data engineering is not a mix of data science and software engineering, either.
Data engineer is neither a software engineer nor a data scientist
Read somewhere - "Data scientist is one that knows/loves statistics more than programming whereas a Software engineer in Data science is one that knows/loves programming more than statistics"
Data scientists are paid less.
I prefer Software Scientist. cuz I can hiss like a sssssnake when I sssssay it.
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Why is there so much ignorance about data science vs data engineering?
Would someone like to explain what a Data Engineer does?
Data engineers create pipelines where raw, messy data comes in, and beautiful, consumable data comes out. You want them around if your app deals with large quantities of data, particularly if it's from external sources.
They are three different things, but no reason one cannot be all three, usually that's what happens in a startup, data scientist derives insights, data engineer creates data movement pipelines and the software engineer figures out features in the product to integrate insights into workflows
As someone who quit a PhD in machine learning and then became a software engineer, I would definitely say engineering is better. At least with software engineering you know your code works and does something constructive. With data science your goal is to tell a story with numbers, and half the time that story is a lie. During my PhD we would run experiments and the plots would be a certain way. Then we would run very similar experiments, and the plots would show completely different trends. My advisor would just pick one of the plots at random and tell me to run with it. I felt most of my research papers spread misinformation, and if data science in industry is anything like this PhD I want nothing to do with it. Plus it feels so good committing code.
Data science, software engineering isn't really engineering
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