article thumbnail

Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

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. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

article thumbnail

Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users

TechCrunch

Data engineers have a big problem. Almost every team in their business needs access to analytics and other information that can be gleaned from their data warehouses, but only a few have technical backgrounds. ” Tracking venture capital data to pinpoint the next US startup hot spots.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

6 strategic imperatives for your next data strategy

CIO

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

Strategy 272
article thumbnail

The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Candidates are required to complete a minimum of 12 credits, including four required courses: Algorithms for Data Science, Probability and Statistics for Data Science, Machine Learning for Data Science, and Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization. Candidates have 90 minutes to complete the exam.

Big Data 315
article thumbnail

Foote Partners: bonus disparities reveal tech skills most in demand in Q3

CIO

Other non-certified skills attracting a pay premium of 19% included data engineering , the Zachman Framework , Azure Key Vault and site reliability engineering (SRE). Close behind and rising fast, though, were security auditing and bioinformatics, offering a pay premium of 19%, up 18.8% since March.

article thumbnail

Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

TechCrunch

After going through Y Combinator, and with the pandemic hitting, Metaplane pivoted but continued to build data analytics-focused tools. “Every day, executives are making decisions based on data that is incorrect. .” “Metaplane is the Datadog for Data,” he added. Slack, PagerDuty, email).

Data 241
article thumbnail

Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

. “Coming from engineering and machine learning backgrounds, [Heartex’s founding team] knew what value machine learning and AI can bring to the organization,” Malyuk told TechCrunch via email. The labels enable the systems to extrapolate the relationships between the examples (e.g., Heartex’s dashboard.