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Data engineering involves designing and building systems to collect and analyze raw data from various sources, enabling businesses to derive valuable insights. It is crucial for managing disparate data, allowing analysts and executives to quickly and securely access comprehensive information. Data engineers perform tasks such as data acquisition, cleansing, and conversion, utilizing tools like ETL, SQL, and cloud storage to create efficient data pipelines for analysis.

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Data engineering involves designing and building systems to collect and analyze raw data from various sources, enabling businesses to derive valuable insights. It is crucial for managing disparate data, allowing analysts and executives to quickly and securely access comprehensive information. Data engineers perform tasks such as data acquisition, cleansing, and conversion, utilizing tools like ETL, SQL, and cloud storage to create efficient data pipelines for analysis.

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What Is Data Engineering?

Data engineering is the process of designing and building systems that let people collect
and analyze raw data from multiple sources and formats. These systems empower
people to find practical applications of the data, which businesses can use to thrive.

Why Is Data Engineering Important?


Companies of all sizes have huge amounts of disparate data to comb through to answer
critical business questions. Data engineering is designed to support the process, making
it possible for consumers of data, such as analysts, data scientists and executives, to
reliably, quickly and securely inspect all of the data available.

Data analysis is challenging because the data is managed by different technologies and
stored in various structures. Yet, the tools used for analysis assume the data is
managed by the same technology and stored in the same structure. This rift can cause
headaches for anybody trying to answer questions about business performance.

 One system contains information about billing and shipping


 Another system maintains order history
 And other systems store customer support, behavioral information and third-party
data

Together, this data provides a comprehensive view of the customer. However, these
different datasets are independent, which makes answering certain questions — like
what types of orders result in the highest customer support costs — very difficult.

Data engineering unifies these data sets and lets you find answers to your questions
quickly and efficiently.

What Do Data Engineers Do?


Data engineering is a skill that is in increasing demand. Data engineers are the people
who design the system that unifies data and can help you navigate it. Data engineers
perform many different tasks including:

 Acquisition: Finding all the different data sets around the business
 Cleansing: Finding and cleaning any errors in the data
 Conversion: Giving all the data a common format
 Disambiguation: Interpreting data that could be interpreted in multiple ways
 Deduplication: Removing duplicate copies of data

Once this is done, data may be stored in a central repository such as a data lake or data
lakehouse. Data engineers may also copy and move subsets of data into a data
warehouse.

Why Does Data Need Processing through Data


Engineering?
Data engineers play a crucial role in designing, operating, and supporting the
increasingly complex environments that power modern data analytics. Historically, data
engineers have carefully crafted data warehouse schemas, with table structures and
indexes designed to process queries quickly to ensure adequate performance. With the
rise of data lakes, data engineers have more data to manage and deliver to downstream
data consumers for analytics. Data that is stored in data lakes may be unstructured and
unformatted – it needs attention from data engineers before the business can derive
value from it.

Fortunately, once a data set has been fully cleaned and formatted through data
engineering, it’s easier and faster to read and understand. Since businesses are creating
data constantly, it’s important to find software that will automate some of these
processes.

The right software stack will extract a huge amount of information and value from your
data, which creates end-to-end journeys for the data known as “data pipelines.” As the
information travels through the pipeline, it may be transformed, enriched and
summarized several times.

Data Engineering Tools and Skills


Data engineers use many different tools to work with data. They use a specialized skill
set to create end-to-end data pipelines that move data from source systems to target
destinations.

Data engineers work with a variety of tools and technologies, including:

 ETL Tools: ETL (extract, transform, load) tools move data between systems. They
access data, then apply rules to “transform” the data through steps that make it more
suitable for analysis.
 SQL: Structured Query Language (SQL) is the standard language for querying
relational databases.
 Python: Python is a general programming language. Data engineers may choose to
use Python for ETL tasks.
 Cloud Data Storage: Including Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS),
Google Cloud Storage, etc.
 Query Engines: Engines run queries against data to return answers. Data engineers
may work with engines like Dremio Sonar, Spark, Flink, and others.

Data Engineering vs. Data Science


Data engineering and data science are two complementary skills. Data engineers help
make data reliable and consistent for analysis. Data scientists need reliable data for
machine learning, data exploration, and other analytical projects involving large data
sets. Data scientists may rely on data engineers to find and prepare data for their
analysis.

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