On: R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind

[nerdponx]

I'm sure someone can come along with a better description, but it's kinda like devops/sysadmin but specifically for data storage and access.

You could also look it up...

[sdenton4 → nerdponx]

At some point, people realized that 90% of data science work was building pipes and keeping them clean. And then data engineering was invented so that the data scientists wouldn't have to get their hands as dirty. :)

[fnord123 → nerdponx]

A snappier version which gives the flavour: Data scientists use {tensor flow, scikit-learn, parquet, hadoop, spark, scrapers, etc}. Data engineers write {tensor flow, scikit-learn, parquet, hadoop, spark, scrapers, etc}.

[xapata → nerdponx]

I'd include database engineer in that bin. We used to call people DBAs but that seems a bit limiting now.

[mehaveaccount → nerdponx]

That's a good description for a data engineer from my end.