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Learn to differentiate these data roles | by Javier Fernandez | Jun, 2022
Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, AI Researcher, ML Engineer, ML DevOps, and Business Analyst, among othersPhoto by Rene on Pexels.If you are reading this article, you have probably also faced the difficulty of differentiating between various data roles such as Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, AI Researcher, ML Engineer, and Business Analyst, among others.This is likely due to the employees’ job titles compared to their responsibilities within the company for the projects they work on. Especially,…
A new method to differentiate between genetic mutations could lead to
Using big data to find cancerous mutations
When determining what type of cancer mutation a patient has, the gold standard is to compare two samples from the patient: one from the tumor and one from healthy tissue (typically blood). Since both samples came from the same person, most of their DNA is identical; focusing only the genetic regions that differ from each other drastically narrows the location of a possible cancer-causing mutation.
The problem is that healthy tissue isn’t always collected from patients, for…