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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Data scientist, data engineer?

Also known as: data scientist · data engineer

Definition 21.1 The Industry: Firms, Roles and Careers · Chapter 21 — Machine-Learning and Data Engineer

A data scientist is an analyst who builds statistical and machine-learning models from data to answer a question or to drive a decision, and reports what the data show. A data engineer is an engineer who builds and runs the pipelines, storage and interfaces through which data is acquired, cleaned, versioned and served to the people and systems that use it.

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