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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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Technology Trends for 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Generative AI gets better and betterbut that trend may be at an end. We dont see a surge in repatriation, though there is a constant ebb and flow of data and applications to and from cloud providers. Specifically, theyre focused on being better communicators and leading engineering teams. Finally, some notes about methodology.

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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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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 used by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers. The data engineer role.

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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. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. Were building a department of AI engineering, mostly by bringing in people from data engineering and training them to work with gen AI and AI in general, says Daniel Avancini, Indiciums CDO.

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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO

Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals remain in high demand. AI will undoubtedly augment current development roles but will not replace them, she says.

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