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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

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What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines that convert raw data into formats usable by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

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The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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Coalesce lands fresh capital to transform data at ‘enterprise scale’

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Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers. Petrossian met Coalesce’s other co-founder, Satish Jayanthi, at WhereScape, where the two were responsible for solving data warehouse problems for large organizations. (In

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Salesforce Data Cloud updates aim to ease data analysis, AI app development

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Salesforce is updating its Data Cloud with vector database and Einstein Copilot Search capabilities in an effort to help enterprises use unstructured data for analysis. The Einstein Trust Layer is based on a large language model (LLM) built into the platform to ensure data security and privacy.

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What does the new era of location intelligence hold for businesses?

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Prior to becoming CEO of Foursquare, Gary was MD of Raine, leading the technology practice with a focus on advisory assignments and principal investments in consumer internet, enterprise software and emerging technology.

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

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Ascend.io , a company developing data automation products for enterprise customers, has raised $31 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation from Shasta Ventures and existing investor Accel, it announced today. Rather, it was the ability to scale the productivity of the people who work with data.

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Rill wants to rethink BI dashboards with embedded database and instant UX

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Company co-founder and CEO Michael Driscoll says he started the company in 2020 with the premise that the business intelligence was broken. He and his team of engineers, most of whom had came from his team at Snap, went to work on building a better solution for a broader audience. “I