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Best Practices for Technical Columns in Database Design

Towards Data Science

When architecting a transactional database or a data warehouse, it’s important not to forget about various types of technical columns… Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Building A Community For Data Professionals at Data Council

Data Engineering Podcast

We have partnered with organizations such as O’Reilly Media, Dataversity, Corinium Global Intelligence, and Data Council. Upcoming events include the O’Reilly AI conference, the Strata Data conference, the combined events of the Data Architecture Summit and Graphorum, and Data Council in Barcelona.

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Data Architect: Role Description, Skills, Certifications and When to Hire

AltexSoft

This specialist works closely with people on both business and IT sides of a company to understand the current needs of the stakeholders and help them unlock the full potential of data. To get a better understanding of a data architect’s role, let’s clear up what data architecture is.

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Data Engineering Learning Path: A Complete Roadmap

Knowledge Hut

Go for the best courses for Data Engineering and polish your big data engineer skills to take up the following responsibilities: You should have a systematic approach to creating and working on various data architectures necessary for storing, processing, and analyzing large amounts of data.

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

AltexSoft

In striking contrast with data scientists, data engineers don’t usually start their journey by specifically wanting to become data engineers. They are typically programmers or people with other IT degrees who became interested in automation and scripting tasks and acquired knowledge of SQL database design.

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Data Science Foundations & Learning Path

Knowledge Hut

The Base For Data Science Though data scientists come from different backgrounds, have different skills and work experience, most of them should either be strong in it or have a good grip on the four main areas: Business and Management Statistics and Probability. B.Tech(Computer Science) Or Data Architecture.

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Data Model Design 101: Composite vs Surrogate Keys

Towards Data Science

When to know which type of key to use in your data models Continue reading on Towards Data Science »