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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

On the extreme end of this applied math, they’re creating machine learning models and artificial intelligence. Just like with most programers, I wouldn't allow them direct access to the production system. That's primarily the job for system administrators or DevOps. Overlapping skills.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Infrastructure and ops usage was the fastest growing sub-topic under the generic systems administration topic.