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Understanding Data Engineering

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Discover how data engineers lay the groundwork that makes data science possible. No coding involved!

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Understand the Basics of Data Engineering


In this course, you’ll learn about a data engineer’s core responsibilities, how they differ from data scientists, and facilitate the flow of data through an organization. Through hands-on exercises you’ll follow Spotflix, a fictional music streaming company, to understand how their data engineers collect, clean, and catalog their data.

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By the end of the course, you’ll understand what your company's data engineers do, be ready to have a conversation with a data engineer, and have a solid foundation to start your own data engineer journey.
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  1. 1

    What is data engineering?

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    In this chapter, you’ll learn what data engineering is and why demand for them is increasing. You’ll then discover where data engineering sits in relation to the data science lifecycle, how data engineers differ from data scientists, and have an introduction to your first complete data pipeline.

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    Data engineering and big data
    50 xp
    Go with the flow
    100 xp
    Not responsible
    100 xp
    Big time
    100 xp
    Data engineers vs. data scientists
    50 xp
    Tell me the truth
    50 xp
    Who is it
    100 xp
    The data pipeline
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    It's not true
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    Pipeline
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    Storing data

    It’s time to talk about data storage—one of the main responsibilities for a data engineer. In this chapter, you’ll learn how data engineers manage different data structures, work in SQL—the programming language of choice for querying and storing data, and implement appropriate data storage solutions with data lakes and data warehouses.

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    Moving and processing data

    Data engineers make life easy for data scientists by preparing raw data for analysis using different processing techniques at different steps. These steps need to be combined to create pipelines, which is when automation comes into play. Finally, data engineers use parallel and cloud computing to keep pipelines flowing smoothly.

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Associate Data Engineer in SQL

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  • Ramasubramanian S.
    12 days

    Nice

  • Petros S.
    13 days

    The lessons were very helpful. It was easy to understand. Need to mention that I have an IT degree which makes it easier for me. I would recommend you to add some more images of database examples. Another thing I would add is more information about the AWS, the Google Cloud Storage and the Microsoft Azure because people who are not familiar need to search and read more about them before they complete the lesson

  • Ana U.
    21 days

    Excellent introductory courses to Data Engineering. The instructor provides a great deal of useful information. This course is helpful to clarify the differences between Data Engineering and Data Scientists. I highly appreciate thee lexicon provided at the end of the course. Thanks!

  • Alireza A.
    27 days

    It was so informative and helpful

  • Wilson K.
    about 1 month

    Data Engineering

"Nice"

Ramasubramanian S.

"Excellent introductory courses to Data Engineering. The instructor provides a great deal of useful information. This course is helpful to clarify the differences between Data Engineering and Data Scientists. I highly appreciate thee lexicon provided at the end of the course. Thanks!"

Ana U.

"It was so informative and helpful"

Alireza A.

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