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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

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.

Apr 7, 2024

Very good introduction to Data Engineering. Not too technical, but a very good foundation of both technical concepts and soft skills required in becoming a successful data engineer.

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By Abubakar N

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Aug 9, 2023

Best course for introduction to Data Engineering.

By Thushara F

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May 24, 2023

Great Lessons with clear explanations. Thank you.

By Moussa K

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Aug 21, 2022

C'etait vraiment interessant le contenu du cours

By Jackson L

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May 27, 2022

Nice course and well alaborated for the beginners

By Ezekiel P

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Oct 12, 2022

This is awesome. thank you for this opportunity

By Alex T

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Aug 20, 2022

Great foundational course for data engineering!

By Yogendra S

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Jan 30, 2026

Very insightful to understand Data Engineering.

By DURAND R J A

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Apr 18, 2025

Excelente introducción a la ingeniería de datos

By Georges A

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Nov 18, 2024

Very good course, lots of info, worth the time.

By erick o

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Jul 1, 2023

Amazing Course, I would recommend it many guys.

By Melika B A

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Sep 20, 2022

Very good basic knowledge of data engineering.

By Obonye B M

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Jun 7, 2022

Very good for introduction to data engineering.

By Alexis C O

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Apr 7, 2021

for introduction I think is a very good course.

By ashraf o

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Aug 21, 2023

Excellent intro to the data engineering field.

By Bobby T

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Feb 6, 2023

Comprehensive, interactive and understandable.

By minhphuc n

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Apr 23, 2024

Good course for introduce to Data Engineering

By Kim N

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Jun 15, 2023

Great overview of the data engineering field!

By Mauricio H

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Aug 4, 2022

It gives a good overview of Data Engineering.

By michael u

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Apr 8, 2022

Amazing, great slides, many concepts covered!

By Poonsak P

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Oct 18, 2021

Great course for start with Data Engineering.

By Muhammad S

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Aug 12, 2021

it was an interesting and fun to learn course

By Sayan S

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Mar 2, 2026

Best introductory Course on data engineering

By shruthi l

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Oct 26, 2025

Got good exposure to data engineering basics

By Alexander B

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Dec 1, 2023

I closed some gaps in my experience, thanks!

By José M H

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Mar 1, 2021

Very good fundamentals for data engineering.