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Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering

You're reading from   Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering An introduction to building end-to-end analytics solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636457
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dumky De Wilde Dumky De Wilde
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Ricardo Angel Granados Lopez Ricardo Angel Granados Lopez
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Lasse Benninga Lasse Benninga
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Taís Laurindo Pereira Taís Laurindo Pereira
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Jovan Gligorevic Jovan Gligorevic
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Juan Manuel Perafan Juan Manuel Perafan
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Fanny Kassapian Fanny Kassapian
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Prologue
2. Part 1:Introduction to Analytics Engineering FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 1: What Is Analytics Engineering? 4. Chapter 2: The Modern Data Stack 5. Part 2: Building Data Pipelines
6. Chapter 3: Data Ingestion 7. Chapter 4: Data Warehousing 8. Chapter 5: Data Modeling 9. Chapter 6: Transforming Data 10. Chapter 7: Serving Data 11. Part 3: Hands-On Guide to Building a Data Platform
12. Chapter 8: Hands-On Analytics Engineering 13. Part 4: DataOps
14. Chapter 9: Data Quality and Observability 15. Chapter 10: Writing Code in a Team 16. Chapter 11: Automating Workflows 17. Part 5: Data Strategy
18. Chapter 12: Driving Business Adoption 19. Chapter 13: Data Governance 20. Chapter 14: Epilogue 21. Index
22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Digging into the problem of moving data between two systems

We have talked, in Chapter 1, What Is Analytics Engineering?, about the changing process of extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data, but understanding these steps is only part of ingesting data. Whenever you add new data to your data platform, whether that is sales data, currency exchange data, web analytics data, or video footage, you will have to make certain choices around the frequency, quality, reliability, and retention of that data and many other choices. If you do not think ahead at the beginning, reality will catch up with you when your data provider makes a change, a pipeline accidentally runs twice, or the requirements from the business change. But why do we need to move data from one system to the other in the first place?

You might consider it a given that you have to manipulate data a bit to make it fit your purpose. Maybe you’re used to pivoting tables in an Excel sheet, adjusting formulas...

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