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what is the difference between data analyst and data scientist


parimalasibi 4th Jan, 2020
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Sanjay Khandelwal 4th Jan, 2020
Hello
The Data science and Data Analytics is almost same. Data science has scope than Data Analytics. A data scientist is who predict the future based on past data whereas a data analyst is one who insights from data. Data scientist is one who estimate the unknown why the data analyst job role install look from new prospective. data scientist generate their own questions where as a data analyst finds answers to a given set of questions from data available. Both data analyst and data scientist have good scope in future. But data science has more scope the data analyst.

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