The Importance Of Data Engineering

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Listen and learn as Richie Bachala discusses the practical applications of data engineering to real-world operations.He also discusses to Sam McKay the importance of data lakes in business analytics, and how cloud-based tools like Snowflake can help users fully leverageontheir data to power their businesses.
What You’ll Learn From This Episode
Data engineering is needed so that data scientists can do their work.
  • RichieBachala’sBI background
  • What is data engineering?
  • The emergence of self-service in data analytics
  • Data lakes explained in simple terms
  • What is the big deal about Snowflake?
  • Benefits of data cloud
  • The time value of data
  • Exploring the platform agnostic approach
  • Data virtualization in a semantic layer
  • The importance of ETL in data engineering
  • Data-as-a-service is the future
  • Modernizing legacy applications
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About The Show

The Analytic Mind podcast provides an opportunity to learn from a diverse range of global data leaders. Hosted by Sam McKay, CEO of Enterprise DNA. Covered will be a range of data and analytics topics keeping you up to date with recent trends, organizational challenges, and opportunities for innovation in this exciting space.