The seminal article that describes them is [[What is analytics engineering|What Is Analytics Engineering]]:
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I don't think they make sense as an exclusive role, but definitely is a job to be done.
Should they do analysis too? According to [[Down with data science|Down With Data Science]], yes. We
have some examples in Spain too:
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