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what's with all the resentments? A few years back, titles like UX designer, UI designer, front-end developer, and back-end developer were non-existent too. Aren

• achompas 15y ago
  Totally agreed. Those titles serve to differentiate between responsibilities given to designers and programmers. So how does a data scientist's responsibilities differ from those of a business analyst?
  • plam 15y ago
    From a 30k feet point of view, the difference is that a business analyst or data miner focus on answering questions with data; whereas, a data scientist focus on asking questions with data.
    • achompas 15y ago
      What does "asking questions with data" mean?
      • plam 15y ago
        Quoting from the article, "On one side, I’ve been working on building products, like the recommender system, Talent Match, modeling and finding ways to empower users to use LinkedIn through their products. Groups You May Like was another product I started. The other side is finding interesting stories in the data. It’s exciting to be able to tell stories collected from the careers of 120 million professionals, and trying to learn what that data can tell us about the world at large. That has given us stories such as, “top times of year to be promoted,” “overused buzzwords” and “top CEO names.” Industries are ebbing and flowing, and there are a lot of insights about the world at large from people’s profiles when they are combined and aggregated."
• gaius 15y ago
  A data scientist is to a business analyst as a Senior Certified Java Enterprise Solutions Architect is to a programmer.