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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

It’s important to understand the differences between a data engineer and a data scientist. Misunderstanding or not knowing these differences are making teams fail or underperform with big data. I think some of these misconceptions come from the diagrams that are used to describe data scientists and data engineers.

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Datafold raises seed from NEA to keep improving the lives of data engineers

TechCrunch

Data engineering is one of these new disciplines that has gone from buzzword to mission critical in just a few years. As data has exploded, so has their challenge of doing this key work, which is why a new set of tools has arrived to make data engineering easier, faster and better than ever.

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Prophecy raises $25M for its low-code data engineering platform

TechCrunch

Prophecy , a low-code platform for data engineering, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners. And since many enterprises are still using legacy tools, Prophecy also built a transpiler that allows businesses to modernize their existing ETL workflows.

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The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

CIO

The proposed model illustrates the data management practice through five functional pillars: Data platform; data engineering; analytics and reporting; data science and AI; and data governance. Operational errors because of manual management of data platforms can be extremely costly in the long run.

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Data & Analytics Maturity Model Workshop Series

Speaker: Dave Mariani, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, AtScale; Bob Kelly, Director of Education and Enablement, AtScale

Check out this new instructor-led training workshop series to help advance your organization's data & analytics maturity. It includes on-demand video modules and a free assessment tool for prescriptive guidance on how to further improve your capabilities. Workshop video modules include: Breaking down data silos.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines that convert raw data into formats usable by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers.

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Fishtown Analytics raises $29.5M Series B for its data engineering platform

TechCrunch

Fishtown Analytics , the Philadelphia-based company behind the dbt open-source data engineering tool, today announced that it has raised a $29.5 The company is building a platform that allows data analysts to more easily create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Fishtown Analytics raises $12.9M