Practical AI #74: Testing ML systems with Tania Allard, developer advocate at Microsoft

I can say I've been working across the machine learning pipeline in all the different roles… And as you mentioned, a lot of these roles are very [unintelligible 00:05:29.20] When people talk about data scientist, and data engineering roles in machine learning research, or machine learning engineering rather, they try to use these Venn diagrams… And I've found that it is not very descriptive. For example, if you're working on the data science side of the pipeline, you're focusing much more on the statistics, on developing novel algorithms or models that would help your business or your company to get [unintelligible 00:06:03.07] But then you will probably have/need some software engineering skills as well, to take that into a production format with the rest of your dev environment or your dev team… Whereas when you're working on the data engineering side of things, you're focusing much more on all the processes that are [unintelligible 00:06:23.24] And then the machine learning engineer role is basically the one that binds it all together.