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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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What Do CIOs Have To Know About Business Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand how to make use of new business intelligence tools Image Credit: deepak pal. Modern CIOs need to understand that Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an company’s strategic and tactical business decisions.

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Data Scientist vs Data Engineer: Differences and Why You Need Both

Altexsoft

Was Nikola Tesla a scientist or engineer? These men didn’t stop at scientific research and ended up conceptualizing or engineering their inventions. Engineers are not only the ones bearing helmets and operating on construction sites. Data science vs data engineering. How about Edison? Or Da Vinci?

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What is data science? Transforming data into value

CIO

A PhD proves a candidate is capable of doing deep research on a topic and disseminating information to others. Some of the best data scientists or leaders in data science groups have non-traditional backgrounds, even ones with very little formal computer training.

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Falkon closes $16M round to automate sales workflows and analyses

TechCrunch

CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, support product research and expand the size of Falkon’s team from 20 to 30 employees by the end of the year. ” Image Credits: Falkon.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI).

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

diversity of sales channels, complex structure resulting in siloed data and lack of visibility. These challenges can be addressed by intelligent management supported by data analytics and business intelligence (BI) that allow for getting insights from available data and making data-informed decisions to support company development.