Analyst capabilities can be divided into three broad areas:
business acumen
domain expertise
technical skills (View Highlight)
Analysts use these capabilities to make decisions, help others make decisions, or solve problems for their organization. (View Highlight)
Great data scientists often have some or all of these competencies, too. For the data leaders I talked to, leveraging the experience of analysts was an intentional strategy to speed up the scaling up of their data teams. (View Highlight)
Note: Being an analyst shortens the business learning curve