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Comment by beforeolives

They aren't synonyms but they sometimes overlap.

- data engineering involves more work on data transformation and developing different pipelines

- data engineering requires more knowledge of databases, cloud environments or different streaming tools (it gets close to being a backend developer in some places)

- data engineering doesn't involve any statistical modeling, data science does

- data science is a broader term - depending on the company a data scientist might be doing all the data engineering work (if it isn't too much) + the model work and statistics. Or they might be focused entirely on research, statistics and ML models

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