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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. 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.

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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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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. An interesting thing happened: the data scientists started pushing back, arguing that they are, in fact, as skilled as data engineers at data engineering. Data engineering is not in the limelight.

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

The certification focuses on the seven domains of the analytics process: business problem framing, analytics problem framing, data, methodology selection, model building, deployment, and lifecycle management. CDP Generalist The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Generalist certification verifies proficiency with the Cloudera CDP platform.

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Preql wants to put business users in charge of their data

TechCrunch

Preql founders Gabi Steele and Leah Weiss were data engineers in the early days at WeWork. They later opened their own consultancy to help customers build data stacks, and they saw a stubborn consistency in the types of information their clients needed. That’s really what motivates us.

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Cloudera Named a Visionary in the Gartner MQ for Cloud DBMS

Cloudera

Cloudera, a leader in big data analytics, provides a unified Data Platform for data management, AI, and analytics. Our customers run some of the world’s most innovative, largest, and most demanding data science, data engineering, analytics, and AI use cases, including PB-size generative AI workloads.

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How to Save Time and Money by Testing Spark Locally

Xebia

Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. There was no need for generating your own data; just take a percentage of production data. In many cases, these tasks ended up on the shoulders of the Data Engineers themselves. Overly restrictive governance.

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