Indonesia is one of many developing countries in the world. In that case, Indonesia will continue in developing many aspects in many field. To be developed country, one of the qualifications is to reach fast growing and developing in science and technology. The development will later affect other aspects as well. New technologies replace human work that is not relevant anymore. However, the disappearance is not the only effect. Because, new relevant job roles will emerge and one of them is data analyst and scientist.
According to data from World Economic Forum, emerging job roles happens to be in highest demand within the organizations and companies in Indonesia is data analysts and scientists.
Why this job roles will emerge meanwhile there are many technologies that can help reading and processing data?
This job plays an important role in translating number into reports that management can understand. The expected output is so that the company or organization can make business decisions based on the translated data.
So, what is the difference between those two?
Data analyst works in analyzing big data to identify trends and develop it into graphic form. The work result will help company or organization to make business decisions. This job role requires a deep understanding of mathematics and statistics.
Meanwhile, data scientist works by processing data using algorithms to solve complex problems. Data scientist will design and build a new process for modelling and producing data using prototypes, algorithms, predictions and particular analysis. Requirement to be data scientist is more complex than data analyst, which are a deep understanding of programming fields, statistics and mathematics analysis, software engineering, big data platform, data structure and storage, etc. This being said that a data analyst can be data scientist. Therefore, sometimes we can call data analyst as junior data scientist.
The most important skill in both job roles is critical thinking to analyze data and solve the problem in it and good communication skill.