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Data engineers vs. data scientists

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It’s important to understand the differences between a data engineer and a data scientist. Misunderstanding or not knowing these differences are making teams fail or underperform with big data. I think some of these misconceptions come from the diagrams that are used to describe data scientists and data engineers.

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219+ live online training courses opened for June and July

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Inside Unsupervised Learning: Group Segmentation Using Clustering , August 13. Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Practical Linux Command Line for Data Engineers and Analysts , July 22. Linux Foundation System Administrator (LFCS) Crash Course , July 25-26. Blockchain.

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Technology Trends for 2024

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LangChain is a framework for building generative AI applications around groups of models and databases. Data analysis and databases Data engineering was by far the most heavily used topic in this category; it showed a 3.6% Designing enterprise-scale data storage systems is a core part of data engineering.

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The Good and the Bad of Python Programming Language

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web development, data analysis. machine learning , DevOps and system administration, automated-testing, software prototyping, and. This distinguishes Python from domain-specific languages like HTML and CSS limited to web design or SQL created for accessing data in relational database management systems.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

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Technical roles represented in the “Other” category include IT managers, data engineers, DevOps practitioners, data scientists, systems engineers, and systems administrators. At 31% of all respondents, this is the largest group. Each of these roles comprised less than 3% of all respondents.

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Q&A with Greg Rahn – The changing Data Warehouse market

Cloudera

Greg Rahn: I first got introduced to SQL relational database systems while I was in undergrad. I was a student system administrator for the campus computing group and at that time they were migrating the campus phone book to a new tool, new to me, known as Oracle. Say, circa 2004 when I started at Oracle.

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