DISPARITY AMONG BUSINESS ANALYST & DATA ANALYST
Business Analyst and DATA Analyst are pretty different from each other and they both offer different things for the company.
Business Analyst(BA) is the guy that understands what the problem a company is facing, and will provide a viable solution. He will check with experts in the respective field(related to problem) to see which solution fits better.
BA will work as a mediator between stakeholders(client) and IT team(Developer). He will gather the requirements and analyse them. After analysing he will translate it into Unique Modeling Language diagram, which will help the developer team to understand those requirements and develop the technological solution to meet those requirements.
Data Analyst will work in offering insight that he will take from database .This job is more of an analytical type. This is more like an IT role with expertise in data warehouse. Data Analyst is very specific role focusing on retrieval of data ,doing analysis of data, find trends and reporting the data.