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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. 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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Data Scientist vs Data Engineer: Differences and Why You Need Both

Altexsoft

If you’re an executive who has a hard time understanding the underlying processes of data science and get confused with terminology, keep reading. We will try to answer your questions and explain how two critical data jobs are different and where they overlap. Data science vs data engineering.

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What is Data Engineer: Role Description, Responsibilities, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

So, along with data scientists who create algorithms, there are data engineers, the architects of data platforms. In this article we’ll explain what a data engineer is, the field of their responsibilities, skill sets, and general role description. What is a data engineer?

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

Data analytics has become increasingly important in the enterprise as a means for analyzing and shaping business processes and improving decision-making and business results. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

diversity of sales channels, complex structure resulting in siloed data and lack of visibility. These challenges can be addressed by intelligent management supported by data analytics and business intelligence (BI) that allow for getting insights from available data and making data-informed decisions to support company development.

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The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

CIO

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. You can intuitively query the data from the data lake.

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

TechCrunch

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