In most companies, Data Engineers support Data Scientists in various ways. Often this means translating or productionizing the notebooks and scripts that a Data Scientist has written. A large portion of the Data Engineer’s role could be replaced with better tooling for Data Scientists, freeing Data Engineers to do more impactful (and scalable) work.

Why does this matter?

There’s a sentiment making its way around the internet (again): We don’t need Data Scientists, we need Data Engineers.

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