Data engineers vs. data scientists

Understanding Data Engineering

Hadrien Lacroix

Content Developer at DataCamp

Data workflow

data science workflow

Data engineers

data collection and storage is circled

Data scientists

data preparation, exploration and experiment are circled together

Data engineers enable data scientists

Data engineer

Ingest and store data
Set up databases
Build data pipelines
Strong software skills

data-engineer

Data scientist

Exploit data
Access databases
Use pipeline outputs
Strong analytical skills

data-scientist

Summary

At which stages data engineers and data scientists intervene
How data engineers enable data scientists

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Understanding Data Engineering

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