December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
11h 55m
English
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Chapter 15. Data Engineering
Data science may be the sexiest job of the 21st century, but the field is evolving rapidly into different job titles. Data scientist has been too crude a description for a whole series of tasks. As of 2020, two jobs that can pay the same or more are data engineer and machine learning engineer.
Even more surprising is the vast number of data engineer roles needed to support a traditional data scientist. It is somewhere between three to five data engineers to one data scientist.
What is happening? Let’s look at it from another angle. Let’s pretend we are writing headlines for a newspaper and want to say something eye-catching. We could say, “CEO is the sexiest job for the rich.” There are few CEOs, just like there are few NBA stars, just like there are few professional actors who are making a living. For every CEO, how many people are working to make that CEO successful? This last statement is content-free and meaningless, like “water is wet.”
This statement isn’t to say that you can’t make a living as a data scientist; it is more a critique of the logistics behind the statement. There is a huge demand for skills in data, and they range from DevOps to machine learning to communication. The term data scientist is nebulous. Is it a job or a behavior? In a way, it is a lot like the word DevOps. Is DevOps a job, or is it a behavior?
In looking at job posting data and salary data, it appears the job market is saying there is an apparent demand for actual ...
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