Foundation of Data Science

PCC-AI 405
Data Scientist Roles and Responsibilities
Data Scientist Roles
• Data science is the science of analyzing raw data using statistics and
machine learning techniques with the purpose of drawing conclusions
about that information.
• Data scientist is defined as someone: “who integrates the skills of
software programmer, statistician and storyteller slash artist to
extract the nuggets of gold hidden under mountains of data”
• Data scientists are analytical data experts who possess the technical
skills to address complex problems. They gather, analyze, and
interpret vast amounts of data while working with a variety of
computer science, mathematics, and statistics-related concepts. They
have a duty to offer perspectives that go beyond statistical analysis.
Data Scientist Roles and Responsibilities
Roles & Responsibilities of a Data Scientist
• Management: The Data Scientist plays an insignificant managerial role where he supports the construction of the
base of futuristic and technical abilities within the Data and Analytics field in order to assist various planned and
continuing data analytics projects.
• Analytics: The Data Scientist represents a scientific role where he plans, implements, and assesses high-level
statistical models and strategies for application in the business’s most complex issues. The Data Scientist
develops econometric and statistical models for various problems including projections, classification, clustering,
pattern analysis, sampling, simulations, and so forth.
• Strategy/Design: The Data Scientist performs a vital role in the advancement of innovative strategies to
understand the business’s consumer trends and management as well as ways to solve difficult business problems,
for instance, the optimization of product fulfillment and entire profit.
• Collaboration: The role of the Data Scientist is not a solitary role and in this position, he collaborates with
superior data scientists to communicate obstacles and findings to relevant stakeholders in an effort to enhance
drive business performance and decision-making.
• Knowledge: The Data Scientist also takes leadership to explore different technologies and tools with the vision of
creating innovative data-driven insights for the business at the most agile pace feasible. In this situation, the Data
Scientist also uses initiative in assessing and utilizing new and enhanced data science methods for the business,
which he delivers to senior management of approval.
• Other Duties: A Data Scientist also performs related tasks and tasks as assigned by the Senior Data Scientist, Head
of Data Science, Chief Data Officer, or the Employer.
Data Scientist Roles and Responsibilities
• Collect data and identify data sources
• Analyze huge amounts of data, both structured and unstructured
• Create solutions and strategies to business problems
• Work with team members and leaders to develop data strategy
• To discover trends and patterns, combine various algorithms and modules
• Present data using various data visualization techniques and tools
• Investigate additional technologies and tools for developing innovative data strategies
• Create comprehensive analytical solutions, from data gathering to display; assist in the construction of data
engineering pipelines
• Supporting the data scientists, BI developers, and analysts team as needed for their projects Working with
the sales and pre-sales team on cost reduction, effort estimation, and cost optimization
• To boost general effectiveness and performance, stay current with the newest tools, trends, and
technologies
• collaborating together with the product team and partners to provide data-driven solutions created with
original concepts
• Create analytics solutions for businesses by combining various tools, applied statistics, and machine learning
• Lead discussions and assess the feasibility of AI/ML solutions for business processes and outcomes
• Architect, implement, and monitor data pipelines, as well as conduct knowledge sharing sessions with peers
to ensure effective data use
 Data Scientist
The focus will be on the futuristic
display of data.
Data scientists present both
supervised and unsupervised
learning of data, say regression and
classification of data, Neural
networks, etc.
Skills required for Data Scientist are
Python, R, SQL, Pig, SAS, Apache
Hadoop, Java, Perl, Spark.
Data Analyst Data Engineer
Data Engineers focus on
The main focus of a data analyst is
optimization techniques and the
on optimization of scenarios, for
construction of data in a
example how an employee can
conventional manner. The purpose
enhance the company’s product
of a data engineer is continuously
growth.
advancing data consumption.
Frequently data engineers operate
Data formation and cleaning of raw
at the back end. Optimized
data, interpreting and visualization
machine learning algorithms were
of data to perform the analysis and
used for keeping data and making
to perform the technical summary
data to be prepared most
of data.
accurately.
Skills required for Data Engineer
Skills required for Data Analyst are
are MapReduce, Hive, Pig Hadoop,
Python, R, SQL, SAS.
techniques.