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Data Engineering Weekly #181

Data Engineering Weekly

The Three C’s of Analytics : Emphasize data creation, curation, and consumption. Build reliable data, maintain usable data models, and ensure the data is interpreted correctly for decision-making. Hiring the Right Team : Start with generalists who possess both technical and soft skills.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Innovation and Engineering at Picnic

Picnic Engineering

In the early days, data was the foundation to support basic operations and learn how to achieve operational excellence. Over time, data became the driver for strategic decision-making and innovation. Our main learnings are that agility must be structured to scale, culture evolves (and thats ok!),

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

AltexSoft

It serves as a foundation for the entire data management strategy and consists of multiple components including data pipelines; , on-premises and cloud storage facilities – data lakes , data warehouses , data hubs ;, data streaming and Big Data analytics solutions ( Hadoop , Spark , Kafka , etc.);

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Which Team Should Own Data Quality?

Towards Data Science

Specialists or generalists? We examine which team structures are the best suited for efficiently improving data quality. Sure, data quality is everyones’ problem. For one, data engineers are often in short supply and so focused on systems and pipelines that they don’t always have as deep domain knowledge of the data.

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What is a Data Engineer?

Dataquest

Data Engineering Roles Although data engineers need to have the skills listed above, the day to day of a data engineer will vary depending on the type of company they work for. Generalist A generalist data engineer typically works on a small team.

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Snowflake Releases New Geospatial Innovations, Now with CARTO Workflows Integration

Snowflake

Introducing CARTO Workflows Snowflake’s powerful data ingestion and transformation features help many data engineers and analysts who prefer SQL.

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15+ Must Have Data Engineer Skills in 2023

Knowledge Hut

Data Pipelines Data lakes continue to get new names in the same year, and it becomes imperative for data engineers to supplement their skills with data pipelines that help them work comprehensively with real-time streams, daily occurrence raw data, and data warehouse queries.