> Do data engineers have good analysis skills? Yes. > Do business analysts have good engineering skills? Depends on the analyst. > I don't think either of t

> Do data engineers have good analysis skills? Yes. > Do business analysts have good engineering skills? Depends on the analyst. > I don't think either of them can fill the data scientist role. > The scientific training and mindset (scientific method, hypothesis, experiment setup, etc.) to even create an accurate model is an undervalued skill here no? Even if data cleaning is automated, these skills cannot be easily learned. It's not about replacing data scientists with data engineers, it's about both roles working together to make everything more efficient. The hiring rate for data scientists has plateaued. The industry doesn't need any more of them. Why? Because data scientists often can't solve problems fast enough. It's a commonly quoted statistic that 70% of any data science task is data cleansing and/or etl. A data engineer's job is to take that 70% and turn it into 10%. The data engineer saves the data scientist time, meaning they can focus on what they're supposed to do -- build models.