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Data Engineering with Python

By : Paul Crickard
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Data Engineering with Python

By: Paul Crickard

Overview of this book

Data engineering provides the foundation for data science and analytics, and forms an important part of all businesses. This book will help you to explore various tools and methods that are used for understanding the data engineering process using Python. The book will show you how to tackle challenges commonly faced in different aspects of data engineering. You’ll start with an introduction to the basics of data engineering, along with the technologies and frameworks required to build data pipelines to work with large datasets. You’ll learn how to transform and clean data and perform analytics to get the most out of your data. As you advance, you'll discover how to work with big data of varying complexity and production databases, and build data pipelines. Using real-world examples, you’ll build architectures on which you’ll learn how to deploy data pipelines. By the end of this Python book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of data modeling techniques, and will be able to confidently build data engineering pipelines for tracking data, running quality checks, and making necessary changes in production.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Building Data Pipelines – Extract Transform, and Load
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Section 2:Deploying Data Pipelines in Production
14
Section 3:Beyond Batch – Building Real-Time Data Pipelines

What data engineers do

Data engineering is part of the big data ecosystem and is closely linked to data science. Data engineers work in the background and do not get the same level of attention as data scientists, but they are critical to the process of data science. The roles and responsibilities of a data engineer vary depending on an organization's level of data maturity and staffing levels; however, there are some tasks, such as the extracting, loading, and transforming of data, that are foundational to the role of a data engineer.

At the lowest level, data engineering involves the movement of data from one system or format to another system or format. Using more common terms, data engineers query data from a source (extract), they perform some modifications to the data (transform), and then they put that data in a location where users can access it and know that it is production quality (load). The terms extract, transform, and load will be used a lot throughout this...