Its interesting that these two job titles and their scope are often either conflated together or there are some for their own personal agenda says that (1) Data Analyst should be paid less than Data Scientist or (2) Data Analyst are just playing a supporting role to Data Scientist.
Thank you for the shout out! I have enjoyed our many conversations on this topic.
I like the perspective you are bringing to this argument: that of brain power. For a typical data scientist, their competency lies in computational thinking and computational modelling. For a data analyst, the competency is in data sensemaking and data storytelling. The former is arguably more complicated while the latter is more complex. While both complication and complexity requires brain power, complication can be 'outsourced' to computers, but not complexity (at present). Hence the point that descriptive and diagnostic analysis would require more brain power in general. Diagnostic analysis, in particular, requires a special kind of 'wisdom' to see the patterns and connect the dots ... to see the trail of information signals.
Thank you for the shout out! I have enjoyed our many conversations on this topic.
I like the perspective you are bringing to this argument: that of brain power. For a typical data scientist, their competency lies in computational thinking and computational modelling. For a data analyst, the competency is in data sensemaking and data storytelling. The former is arguably more complicated while the latter is more complex. While both complication and complexity requires brain power, complication can be 'outsourced' to computers, but not complexity (at present). Hence the point that descriptive and diagnostic analysis would require more brain power in general. Diagnostic analysis, in particular, requires a special kind of 'wisdom' to see the patterns and connect the dots ... to see the trail of information signals.
I should be paid more, regardless of my title
We all do, brother, we all do. :)