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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

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.

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.

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By Severino A

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Sep 18, 2023

Great material, examples and easy to follow

By vincent h

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Sep 15, 2023

Excellent course material and presentation.

By Muhammad M

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Mar 7, 2023

A very thorough and well explanatory course

By Albert S

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Aug 11, 2023

Data Engineering 에 대한 학습자료입니다. 도움 많이 됩니다.

By Khairina C

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Jan 19, 2022

I learned a lot of data engineering theory

By Raghu K V

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Mar 24, 2023

Great starter course for a specialization

By Elrik R

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Nov 9, 2021

excelent introduction to data engineering

By Сергей Н

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Sep 8, 2021

Good start for learning data engineering!

By Vitali F

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Jun 20, 2022

Learned a lot in this course!

Thank you

By Santiago B

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Oct 28, 2021

Muy completo a nivel practico y teórico.

By Surya P

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Dec 28, 2024

well designed course for novice like me

By Humberto C S

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Feb 7, 2023

Great introduction to data engineering!

By Muhammad A

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Jan 15, 2023

great learning about data engineering .

By Ricardo L

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Nov 4, 2022

One of the best courses I've ever taken

By Christian A

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Oct 6, 2021

Bastante explicativo Gracias!!!!!!!!!!!

By Martin C

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Aug 3, 2023

A good start in a journey totally new!

By Serg V

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Jun 16, 2022

Nice course in clear English. Thanks!

By Brian M

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Mar 18, 2025

A must do course for IT professionals

By Pafadnam I

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Oct 24, 2024

ça a été une belle expérience, thanks

By Johnkings O

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Nov 11, 2025

One of the best courses I have done.

By Ricardo S Y

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Jun 8, 2025

Es bueno o los temas son entendibles

By onuoha V

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Aug 26, 2023

more knowleage aout data engineering

By VYZANIARIS G

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Jul 8, 2023

Very good as an introductory course!

By Vinay Z

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Sep 5, 2022

Very NIce COurse to start on Data...

By DIEGO D A N

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Dec 3, 2025

Excellent content! I enjoied a lot.