What are the best alternatives to data-scientist?
The highest-scoring alternative to data-scientist is pandas-pro from jeffallan/claude-skills, at 84/100 (grade B) on the Suede Skill Check; data-scientist scores 86/100. The table compares 6 data analysis skills in data, analytics and databases from other publishers, each with a full SuedeAI.directory page.
data-scientist and 6 alternatives
Alternatives share data-scientist's category and task, come from other publishers and each have a full directory page. Ranked by Suede Skill Check score.
| Skill | Publisher | Suede Skill Check | License | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-scientist Compared skill | tronghieu tronghieu/agent-skills | 86/100 · B | MIT | Turns business questions into data analysis, validated models, and decision-ready reports, including dataset profiling, A/B test checks, and predictive modeling. |
| pandas-pro | jeffallan jeffallan/claude-skills | 84/100 · B | MIT | Performs pandas DataFrame operations for data analysis, such as cleaning, joins, pivots, groupby aggregation, time series resampling, and handling missing values. |
| mssql | sanjay3290 sanjay3290/ai-skills | 83/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Executes read-only SQL queries against multiple Microsoft SQL Server databases, supporting schema exploration, SELECT queries for data analysis, and checking database contents. |
| mysql | sanjay3290 sanjay3290/ai-skills | 83/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Executes read-only SQL queries against multiple MySQL databases, supporting schema exploration, SELECT queries for data analysis, and checking database contents. |
| postgres | sanjay3290 sanjay3290/ai-skills | 80/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Executes read-only SQL queries against multiple PostgreSQL databases, supporting schema exploration, SELECT queries for data analysis, and checking database contents. |
| dashboard-creator | mhattingpete mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace | 75/100 · C | Apache-2.0 | Creates HTML dashboards with KPI metric cards, bar, pie, and line charts, progress indicators, and other data visualizations. |
| query | honeydew-ai honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-plugins | 71/100 · C | Apache-2.0 | Queries and analyzes data through the Honeydew semantic layer, including natural language analysis questions, deep multi-step investigations, and structured queries. |
Questions and answers
What is the highest-scoring alternative to data-scientist?
pandas-pro from jeffallan/claude-skills, at 84/100, grade B. It earns full points for structural checks, recent maintenance and instruction depth. Performs pandas DataFrame operations for data analysis, such as cleaning, joins, pivots, groupby aggregation, time series resampling, and handling missing values.
How does data-scientist compare with its alternatives?
data-scientist scores 86/100, grade B. Of the 6 alternatives, 6 score lower; their scores run from 71 to 84. All of them sit in data, analytics and databases and match the data analysis keyword map.
Are the alternatives to data-scientist free?
All 6 alternatives to data-scientist are published in public GitHub repositories and cost nothing to download. Every one uses an open-source or open-content license, led by Apache-2.0 (5) and MIT (1), so you can use and adapt the files at no cost under those terms.
Do the alternatives to data-scientist work in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor?
Yes. Each of the 6 alternatives to data-scientist is a SKILL.md folder in the Agent Skills format, which Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all read. The skills CLI (npx skills add) installs every one of them into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents, and each full skill page adds a project-level copy into .claude/skills for Claude Code and .agents/skills for Codex.