How to Switch from Data Analytics to Data Science – From a Big Tech Data Scientist | by Khouloud El Alami | Jul, 2024
I’m Khouloud El Alami, a data scientist at Spotify, and I document my learnings as a data professional in big tech.
So I often get lots of messages from aspiring data scientists, and this is one of the questions I get the most:
How do I switch from being a data analyst to a data scientist?
The good news is, data scientists are also data analysts. So you won’t have to learn this part of the job. You already come prepackaged with important skills.
Now data scientists are also other things. They have more tricks under their sleeves because they can do:
→ Data Analytics
→ Decision Science
→ Machine Learning
The thing is for many companies, hiring one professional that does it all is much more profitable than hiring many that do each of these things.
What this means for you is that if you’re a data analyst, you’re also competing with data science-trained professionals that are desperate to get a job in today’s fierce…