Defining data science team roles

Data science teams need to deliver complex projects where system analysis, software engineering, data engineering, and data science are used to deliver the final solution. In this section, we will explore the main data science project roles. The project role depicts a set of related activities that can be performed by an expert. Role-expert is not strictly a one-to-one correspondence, as many experts have the expertise to handle multiple roles at once.

An average data science team will include a business analyst, a system analyst, a data scientist, a data engineer, and a data science team manager. More complex projects may also benefit from the participation of a software architect and backend/frontend development ...

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