Difference between Data Scientist, Data

Analysts and Data Analytics

Data Scientist
A Data Scientist is a professional who understands data from a business
point of view. He is in charge of making predictions to help businesses take
accurate decisions. Data scientists come with a solid foundation of computer
applications, modeling, statistics and math. What sets them apart is their
brilliance in business coupled with great communication skills, to deal with
both business and IT leaders. They are efficient in picking the right problems,
which will add value to the organization after resolving it.
A Data Scientist can also be divided into 4 different roles based on
their skill sets.

Data Researcher

Data Developers

Data Creatives

Data Businesspeople

Mainly looking at estimating the unknown, e.g.

Building statistical models that make decisions based on data. Each

decision can be hard, e.g. block a page from rendering, or soft, e.g.
assign a score for the maliciousness of a page that is used by
downward systems or humans.

Conducting causality experiments that attempt to attribute the root

cause of an observed phenomenon. This can be done by designing A/B
experiments or if A/B experiment is not possible apply epidemiological
approach to the problem

Identifying new products or features that come from unlocking the

value of data; being a thought leader on the value of data. A good

example of that is the product recommendations feature that Amazon

first made available to a mass audience.

Data Analysts
Data Analysts also plays a major role in Data Science. They perform a variety
of tasks related to collecting, organizing data and obtaining statistical
information out of them. They are also responsible to present the data in the
form of charts, graphs and tables and use the same to build relational
databases for organizations.
A Data Analyst can also be divided into 4 different roles based on
their skill sets.

Data Architects

Database Administrators

Analytics Engineer

Operations

Mainly looking at the known, i.e. historical data, from new perspectives, e.g.

Writing custom queries to answer complex business questions.

Conceiving and implementing new metrics on capturing previously

poorly understood parts of the business / product.

Addressing data quality issues, such as data gaps or biases in data

acquisition.

Working with the rest of engineering to instrument incremental new

data acquisition.

Data Analytics

Data analytics is a broader term and includes data analysis as necessary

subcomponent. Analytics defines the science behind the analysis. The science
means understanding the cognitive processes an analyst uses to understand
problems and explore data in meaningful ways. Analytics also include data extract,
transform, and load; specific tools, techniques, and methods; and how to
successfully communicate results.
Data Analytics perform research in machine learning and data mining to discover
scalable computational methods for finding useful models from massive amounts of
data. These models can be used in a variety of tasks, including clustering/discovery,
regression/prediction, and classification/ranking.
Data Analytics is building predictive models and discovering patterns from data.

It refers to the Skills, Technologies, & Practices for continuous iterative

Exploration and Investigation of past business performance to gain insight
and drive business planning.

It focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business

performance based on data and statistical methods.

It makes extensive use of statistical analysis, including explanatory

and predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision
making. It is therefore closely related to management science.

Analytics may be used as input for human decisions or may drive fully
automated decisions.

It can answer questions like why is this happening, what if these trends
continue, what will happen next (that is, predict), what is the best that can
happen (that is, optimize).