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OmI might just pinch "Data Generalist", nice one

'data generalist' I like it! Felt very similar to you where I had a hard time summarizing me between SWE—MLE—DS—teacher Cool to see your passion in education! I've been doing this mostly on the side these days— I'd love to talk about edu approach sometime w/ you :D And exciting about your book!

BTW I love talking about educational approaches, happy to connect sometime! We also did a bunch of episodes of our podcast (called Half Stack Data Science) all about data education. Had some great guests on. Apparently you can just approach amazing people and they're just... happy to talk? Who knew?

Just added to my podcast player! I never taught data, so I have no expertise here - but the educational component of data is a fascinating space, so it'll be exciting to hear from practitioners in it.

Realising and embracing the fact that I'm a generalist has been a huge turning point for me! davidasboth.com/why-i-now-ca...

Yes! Exactly this! I'd always have to append 'hi, me data scientist' with what I'm actually doing. It's just too big of an umbrella for such a diverse field & set of people 'Data Generalist' is ironically probably the most accurate & specific title for folks like yourself

I stole the term “data generalist” and used it today, I’ve had the same problem finding a good way to describe my work.

How do you cover all the devops, deployment and platform skills that people need? I feel like this is a big gap for people coming to data engineering from being an analyst. They’ve never worked as a software engineer to pick up these skills, they are actually unknown unknowns.

I agree that gap exists and I consciously stayed away from it. One way was to avoid calling it "data science". The skills you mention are not traditional analyst skills, plus they warrant a book of their own. I'd read an "analyst to engineer" transition book!

It doesn't seem to exist though. I often think that engineers have these skills subconsciously.