Rashini Liyanarachchi
Nov 4 · 2 min read

What is data science? There are several definitions when you look up the term data science in the internet. But basically, Data science is the study of data and it is used develop methods to store, record, and to analyse data to effectively get useful information.

Data science is a combination of different techniques and theories taken from many fields such as Math and statistics, Computer Science/IT and Domains/Business Knowledge. Also, data science uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to extract useful data and to predict the future patterns and the behaviours.

When we talk about the jobs you can do after learning data science, there’s quite a few. Mainly, you can be a data analyst, data engineer or a data scientist.

Data analyst

Description : A data analyst is someone who collects, processes and performs statistical analyses of data. He or she can translate numbers and data into plain English in order to help organisations and companies understand how to make better business decisions.

Average salary: $67,377

Data Engineer

Description : Data Engineers are the data professionals who prepare the “big data” infrastructure to be analyzed by Data Scientists. They are software engineers who design, build, integrate data from various resources, and manage big data.

Average salary: $137,776

Data Scientist

Description : Data Scientist are the people who make value out of data. They gather information from various sources and analyse it for better understanding about how the business is currently performing and build AI tools that automate certain processes of the company.

Average salary: $137,776

Other Jobs in data science field:

  1. Machine learning engineer
  2. Data Warehouse Architect
  3. Quantitative Analyst
  4. Statistician
  5. Business Analyst
  6. System Analyst etc…

Data science is one of the most trending in the Technology field in 2019.

“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.”Chris Lynch, Vertica Systems

Data science in 2019

What is data science and the current (2019) standards of data science in the society

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Data science in 2019

What is data science and the current (2019) standards of data science in the society

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