The Difference Between ML Engineers and Data Scientists | by Egor Howell | Nov, 2024

Let’s start by defining a data scientist. Having worked as one for over three years, I feel I am adequately placed to do so!

Data science is a broad term nowadays, and it means different things at different companies; it’s ambiguous, to say the least! (I often complain about this)

A data scientist at one company could be doing purely analytical work and setting metrics, whereas, at another company, they could be building and deploying machine learning models.