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Sep 2018
16m 22s

Data Engineering

Ben Jaffe And Katie Malone
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If you’re a data scientist, you know how important it is to keep your data orderly, clean, moving smoothly between different systems, well-documented… there’s a ton of work that goes into building and maintaining databases and data pipelines. This job, that of owner and maintainer of the data being used for analytics, is often the realm of data engineers. Fr ... Show More
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