Minding and Mining the Truth: Strategic Analytics Analyst Kate Lee Distinguishes between Data Analytics and Data Science

Kate Lee is a Strategic Analytics Analyst at big-data company IRI which specializes in CPG (consumer packaged goods). At a recent event hosted by data-upskill school, Promotable, she discussed the differences between the roles of data analytics analyst and data scientist. From her perspective, the former is essentially focused on reporting and insights-generation compared to the latter whose foremost concentration is parsing causal relationships to inform predictability. The scale and scope of t...