Tag: Big Data

segment data consulting

What Is Segment And Why You Should Use It For Your Customer Data Platform

Companies of all sizes are looking for faster and easier ways to take advantage of data through analytics and BI. In particular, knowing who your customers are, how they interact with your business, products and services is a modern necessity. In a customer-centric world where data can help improve the overall customer experience and relationships,…
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August 8, 2021 0
data engineering consulting

What Is The Modern Data Stack And Why You Need to Migrate to the It

Photo by Myriam Jessier on Unsplash The modern data stack (MDS) is a new approach to data integration capable of saving your engineers time while allowing both engineers and analysts to focus on high-value pursuits. With a suite of tools to support data integration, the modern data stack will free your teams of monotony while empowering…
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August 4, 2021 0
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Data Engineering Roadmap For 2021 – 12 Steps To Help You Go From 0 To Data Engineering

Maybe it’s the 6 figure salaries, the opportunity to work with cool technology or people are finally learning that data engineering is where everything starts in the data field. Whatever the reason, people are noticing. VCs are investing in data storage and ingestion platforms and companies are interviewing more data engineers compared to previous years. But how…
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July 9, 2021 1
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Scaling a Data Analytics Team for a Billion Dollar Start-Up With Veronica Zhai Of Fivetran

Scaling data talent is hard. It’s hard to hire. Hard to grow and just overall hard in terms of managing processes and output. But there are brilliant leaders and managers doing it everyday. I recently interviewed Veronica Zhai, the principal product manager at Fivetran. She has led Fivetran’s analytical team for nearly the last year…
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July 4, 2021 0
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Is Data Engineering For You? Maybe you’re a recovering data scientist?

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Why does it feel like so many more articles are discussing the data engineering profession? Perhaps it’s because Dice’s 2020 tech jobs report cites data engineering as the fastest-growing field in 2020, increasing by a staggering 50%, while data science roles only increased by 10%? Or maybe it’s just because the Medium…
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June 23, 2021 0

Rivery.io – What Is It and How It Can Help You Develop Your Data Pipelines

Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash There are plenty of clichés about data and its likeness to oil. But it’s far from easy to get value from data. Companies are creating more data than ever before. At our current pace, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. Companies went from pulling data solely…
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June 22, 2021 0
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3 Heads Of Data And Founders Perspective On Where Data Is Going

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash 2021 is almost halfway over and it seems like hundreds of millions of dollars has gone into investing in data, data start-ups and machine learning. In particular funding has also shifted heavily from just focusing on the data science and machine learning space to the data engineering and data management…
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May 27, 2021 0
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Software Engineer vs. Data Engineer – Which Career Is Right For You?

Software engineer vs. data engineer. People outside these professions are often confused about the differences between these experts. They may think these are two different names for the same thing: a programming expert. Of course, the duties of each engineer type are different, but their roles are similar enough to confuse people who are in…
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May 1, 2021 0
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Best Online Courses for Data Engineers In 2021

Photo by Windows on Unsplash It seems like it might be finally happening. Data engineering is finally getting a little bit of the data lime light. Which makes sense. The data being stored and analyzed is not only becoming more voluminous but its speed, complexity and variety are also increasing. Making it difficult to wrangle. With…
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April 17, 2021 3

What Skills Do Data Engineers Need

Photo by Guille Álvarez on Unsplash With an extensive background in data science, analytics, and cloud computing, I am consistently asked the same questions repeatedly. Besides wanting to know the difference between a data engineer and a data scientist, one of the most common questions is, what skills should I learn as a data engineer?…
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April 15, 2021 0