Data Mining

Data scientist vs Data mining specialist

Both jobs are in high-demand. However, on average, data scientists are paid substantially more than data mining specialists due to the wider array of skills needed.

Key differences:

Data mining specialist

Works to make data more usable by finding trends and patterns previously unknown.  They have skills that allow them to understand different types of data and statistics.

Data mining can be a subset of Data Science.

Data scientist

Creates products that are driven by a variety of data points, using social analysis, and predictive models to uncover unknown facts.  They understand machine learning, and have domain knowlege.

Resources for learning more:

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-11-ways-to-make-data-analytics-work-for-k-12/2014/10 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/jun/19/elearning.technology26 

https://tech.ed.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/edm-la-brief.pdf 

https://www.aspirations.org/ 

https://www.kaggle.com/ , https://www.kaggle.com/datasets 

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ 

https://pandas.pydata.org/