Hello, dear community!

I see many job offers for data analysts. Unfortunately, I do not see the curricula for that branch. Who are data anlysts? Are they typical software engineers or they are of academic researchers with PhD degrees mandatorily? What kind of expertise typical employer assumes for data analysts?

I had fun with R/Mathematica software. My MSc thesis was about symbolic algorithm of text classification. Also I am familiar with modern statistics and well-known machine learning algorithms (SVM, neural nets, Bayesian approaches). My current job is about computer vision. But I do the typical software engineering work:

1. Formalize the problem;
2. Locate the solutions space;
3. Search the optimal solution under given contraints;
4. Develop/implement the software for the chosen solution.

Do the data analysts do the same? What is the product of the data analysts work? Please, share you evidence and career stories.

Thanks.

Hello, dear community!

I see many job offers for data analysts. Unfortunately, I do not see the curricula for that branch. Who are data anlysts? Are they typical software engineers or they are of academic researchers with PhD degrees mandatorily? What kind of expertise typical employer assumes for data analysts?

I had fun with R/Mathematica software. My MSc thesis was about symbolic algorithm of text classification. Also I am familiar with modern statistics and well-known machine learning algorithms (SVM, neural nets, Bayesian approaches). My current job is about computer vision. But I do the typical software engineering work:

1. Formalize the problem;
2. Locate the solutions space;
3. Search the optimal solution under given contraints;
4. Develop/implement the software for the chosen solution.

Do the data analysts do the same? What is the product of the data analysts work? Please, share you evidence and career stories.

Thanks.

Hello, dear community!

I see many job offers for data analysts. Unfortunately, I do not see the curricula for that branch. Who are data anlysts? Are they typical software engineers or they are of academic researchers with PhD degrees mandatorily? What kind of expertise typical employer assumes for data analysts?

I had fun with R/Mathematica software. My MSc thesis was about symbolic algorithm of text classification. Also I am familiar with modern statistics and well-known machine learning algorithms (SVM, neural nets, Bayesian approaches). My current job is about computer vision. But I do the typical software engineering work:

1. Formalize the problem;
2. Locate the solutions space;
3. Search the optimal solution under given contraints;
4. Develop/implement the software for the chosen solution.

Do the data analysts do the same? What is the product of the data analysts work? Please, share you evidence and career stories.

Thanks.