There’s several distinct fields aimed at working with data.

  • Data analytics analyses existing data to discover trends and patterns. They create data visualisations and communicate these insights to stakeholders.
  • Data science takes analytics and cranks it to 11. It involves building statistical and machine learning models for insights and predictions. This is not unlike machine learning engineering.
  • Data engineering builds out infrastructure for data storage and processing. This is not unlike regular software engineering.

Key concepts

Tools

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Visualisation:

Analytics, databases:

Resources

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