Understanding Data Engineering Data Camp

Overview

Context

In this Understanding Data Engineering course offered by Data Camp, you’ll learn about a data engineer’s core responsibilities, how they differ from data scientists, and facilitate the flow of data through an organization. Through hands-on exercises you’ll follow Spotflix, a fictional music streaming company, to understand how their data engineers collect, clean, and catalog their data.

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By the end of the course, you’ll understand what your company's data engineers do, be ready to have a conversation with a data engineer, and have a solid foundation to start your own data engineer journey.

What you'll learn:

• Define data engineering and recognize its role in building data pipelines for analytics and machine learning.
• Identify key components of a data workflow, including ingestion, storage, transformation, and serving.
• Distinguish between batch and streaming data processing approaches and assess when each is appropriate.
• Recognize the responsibilities of data engineering roles compared to data science and analytics roles.
• Evaluate common data engineering tools and technologies used in modern data ecosystems.