Am Khouloud El Alami, Data Scientist at Spotifyand document my learnings as a data professional in big tech.
I often receive a lot of messages from aspiring data scientists, and this is one of the questions I get asked the most:
How can I go from being a data analyst to a data scientist?
The good news is that data scientists are also data analysts. So, you won't have to learn this part of the job. You come prepared with important skills.
Now, data scientists are other things too. They have more tricks up their sleeves because they can do:
→ Data analysis
→ Decision science
→ Machine learning
The problem is that for many companies, hiring one professional to do everything is much more cost-effective than hiring many professionals to do each of those things.
What this means for you is that if you are a data analyst, you are also competing with data science-skilled professionals who are desperate to land a job in today's cutthroat job market…
