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Introduction to Data Engineering

Start your journey in one of the fastest growing professions today with this beginner-friendly Data Engineering course! You will be introduced to the core concepts, processes, and tools you need to know in order to get a foundational knowledge of data engineering. as well as the roles that Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts play in the ecosystem. You will begin this course by understanding what is data engineering as well as the roles that Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts play in this exciting field. Next you will learn about the data engineering ecosystem, the different types of data structures, file formats, sources of data, and the languages data professionals use in their day-to-day tasks. You will become familiar with the components of a data platform and gain an understanding of several different types of data repositories such as Relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Data Lakes and Data Lakehouses. You’ll then learn about Big Data processing tools like Apache Hadoop and Spark. You will also become familiar with ETL, ELT, Data Pipelines and Data Integration. This course provides you with an understanding of a typical Data Engineering lifecycle which includes architecting data platforms, designing data stores, and gathering, importing, wrangling, querying, and analyzing data. You will also learn about security, governance, and compliance. You will learn about career opportunities in the field of Data Engineering and the different paths that you can take for getting skilled as a Data Engineer. You will hear from several experienced Data Engineers, sharing their insights and advice. By the end of this course, you will also have completed several hands-on labs and worked with a relational database, loaded data into the database, and performed some basic querying operations.

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BeginnerCourse14 hours

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MF

5.0Reviewed Mar 25, 2022

This course is optimal for the foundations and understanding of Data Engineering. Please take it and absorb all the knowledge and be amazed about your future with the Data Engineer certification.

CM

5.0Reviewed Aug 13, 2024

A very good introduction course. It presents all ecosystem of Data Engineering, the fields of works and specific areas related to ir and also all its technologies and applications.

AR

5.0Reviewed Sep 25, 2021

I felt the course was the perfect introduction for someone like me that has been on the sales side of most software. I feel that it wasnt ovewhelming at all, and I mostly enjoyed the labs.

LA

4.0Reviewed Dec 25, 2021

​It’s a good introduction to data engineering. But as the course title it is just an introduction. You will need several follow up courses to get a hands on experience on the topic.

JA

5.0Reviewed Jul 1, 2022

Great overall! The viewpoints from data professionals complements the educational content very well and gives the student a much better idea of what the process is to become a data engineer.

AW

5.0Reviewed Aug 10, 2022

This is good course for startup in data engineering.if someone new to data engineering field i highly recomanded this course. i covers more topics which is related to data warehousing

RP

5.0Reviewed Apr 16, 2022

T​his was an excellent introduction into data. It makes me excited to be learning about something that is very important in today's world and to be seeing it from a new perspective.

GP

4.0Reviewed Sep 25, 2022

O​verall, a good course to take to learn about Data Engineering. I recommend it if you have no background in computer science or data. Some of the quiz questions were as difficult to understand.

SG

5.0Reviewed Sep 11, 2024

So far I'm kicking myself wishing I had done this sooner, but better late than never. This course is really teaching me real world information, that is what so important.

DF

5.0Reviewed Oct 20, 2021

T​his course was well made and informative. I went in knowing little about data engineering and now I have a much better understanding of what data engineering is all about.

RV

5.0Reviewed Oct 10, 2023

It captures required concepts for starting out your data engineering journey. Although the concepts are hard to understand if one has entirely no background in data-related jobs.

AS

5.0Reviewed Mar 10, 2023

Very simply presented and interesting course. Easy to learn due to interesting visual tools, more importantly due to real Data Engineers interviews and their work stories.

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