Who are the Spark users?

As the world moves toward data-driven decision-making approaches, the role of data and the different types of users who can leverage it for critical business decisions has become paramount. There are different types of users in data who can leverage Spark for different purposes. I will introduce some of those different users in this section. This is not an exhaustive list, but it should give you an idea of the different roles that exist in data-driven organizations today. However, as the industry grows, many more new roles are coming up that are similar to the ones present in the following sections, although each may have its own separate role.

We’ll start with the role of data analysts.

Data analysts

The more traditional role in data today is a data analyst. The data analyst is typically the first-tier role in data. What this means is that data analysts are at the core of decision making in organizations. This role spans across different business...