Analytics Engineering Everywhere - KDnuggets
Many new roles have appeared in the data world ever since the rise of the Data Scientist took the spotlight several years ago. Now, there is a new core player ready to take center stage, and we may see in five years, nearly every organization will have an Analytics Engineering team.
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the world of data. For years we have been blasted with nonstop articles about “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” — a data scientist. A data scientist, we have been taught, is a figure of almost otherworldly intelligence who uses quasi-mystical arts to perform feats of data wizardly. But these days, if you talk to the people who watch the data space most closely — there’s a different data role that has them even more excited.
To be clear, there are some very real and very cool applications of data science that can allow organizations to do things with data that can completely transform how their organization operates. But for many orgs, particularly smaller organizations without millions of dollars to invest, data science initiatives tend to fall flat because of the lack of a solid data infrastructure to support them.
