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> Data Engineering sounds interesting but also appears to require heavy statistics. That's Data Science. Data Engineering is just writing code (pipelines in Sp
by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Data Engineering sounds interesting but also appears to require heavy statistics.
That's Data Science. Data Engineering is just writing code (pipelines in Spark usually) which moves data from system A to B and perhaps applies some machine learning code, supplied by data scientists, to it. But, most of the work is just moving data around. I work with dozens of Data Engineers and none of them know even basic stats (and if they know, they don't get to use it anyway).