Who Are the Data Professionals?

"A data scientist is someone who can obtain, scrub, explore, model, and interpret data, blending hacking, statistics, and machine learning. Data scientists not only are adept at working with data, but appreciate data itself as a first-class product." Data science has been the buzzword for the past few years. Data professionals form a distinct niche in the developer population. But how different are they from the rest of the developers?