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Essential data engineering tools for 2023: Empowering for management and analysis

Data Science Dojo

Data engineering tools are software applications or frameworks specifically designed to facilitate the process of managing, processing, and transforming large volumes of data. Spark offers a rich set of libraries for data processing, machine learning, graph processing, and stream processing.

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5 Ways Data Engineers Can Support Data Governance

Alation

That’s why many organizations invest in technology to improve data processes, such as a machine learning data pipeline. However, data needs to be easily accessible, usable, and secure to be useful — yet the opposite is too often the case. These data requirements could be satisfied with a strong data governance strategy.

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Top 5 Fivetran Connectors for Healthcare

phData

Understanding Fivetran Fivetran is a popular Software-as-a-Service platform that enables users to automate the movement of data and ETL processes across diverse sources to a target destination. The phData team achieved a major milestone by successfully setting up a secure end-to-end data pipeline for a substantial healthcare enterprise.

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Building Robust Data Pipelines: 9 Fundamentals and Best Practices to Follow

Alation

But with the sheer amount of data continually increasing, how can a business make sense of it? Robust data pipelines. What is a Data Pipeline? A data pipeline is a series of processing steps that move data from its source to its destination. The answer?

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Data Profiling: What It Is and How to Perfect It

Alation

This, in turn, helps them to build new data pipelines, solutions, and products, or clean up the data that’s there. It bears mentioning data profiling has evolved tremendously. Business data stewards benefit from having a breakdown of the patterns that exist in the data.

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Data architecture strategy for data quality

IBM Journey to AI blog

The first generation of data architectures represented by enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms were characterized by thousands of ETL jobs, tables, and reports that only a small group of specialized data engineers understood, resulting in an under-realized positive impact on the business.

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How to Shift from Data Science to Data Engineering

ODSC - Open Data Science

This individual is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that stores and processes data; the kinds of data can be diverse, but most commonly it will be structured and unstructured data. They’ll also work with software engineers to ensure that the data infrastructure is scalable and reliable.