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Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering

Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering

By : Dumky De Wilde, Kassapian, Gligorevic, Juan Manuel Perafan, Lasse Benninga, Ricardo Angel Granados Lopez, Taís Laurindo Pereira
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Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering

Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering

4.7 (3)
By: Dumky De Wilde, Kassapian, Gligorevic, Juan Manuel Perafan, Lasse Benninga, Ricardo Angel Granados Lopez, Taís Laurindo Pereira

Overview of this book

Written by a team of 7 industry experts, Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering will introduce you to everything from foundational concepts to advanced skills to get started as an analytics engineer. After conquering data ingestion and techniques for data quality and scalability, you’ll learn about techniques such as data cleaning transformation, data modeling, SQL query optimization and reuse, and serving data across different platforms. Armed with this knowledge, you will implement a simple data platform from ingestion to visualization, using tools like Airbyte Cloud, Google BigQuery, dbt, and Tableau. You’ll also get to grips with strategies for data integrity with a focus on data quality and observability, along with collaborative coding practices like version control with Git. You’ll learn about advanced principles like CI/CD, automating workflows, gathering, scoping, and documenting business requirements, as well as data governance. By the end of this book, you’ll be armed with the essential techniques and best practices for developing scalable analytics solutions from end to end.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Prologue
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2
Part 1:Introduction to Analytics Engineering
5
Part 2: Building Data Pipelines
11
Part 3: Hands-On Guide to Building a Data Platform
13
Part 4: DataOps
17
Part 5: Data Strategy
21
Index

Documenting code

Documentation is the holy grail when maintaining a code base. This should sound familiar; how often have you found yourself reviewing or having to work with a new code base, and there is little to no documentation on how things work? It is every engineer’s nightmare in this field of work. When we talk about documentation, we not only talk about code comments or technical documentation but also conceptual documentation that describes what certain code does on a higher level.

In fact, as mentioned in the book Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing (https://docsfordevelopers.com/), we can distinguish between several types of documentation:

  • Code comments
  • READMEs
  • Getting started
  • Conceptual documentation

Let’s talk about each of them in detail.

Documenting code in dbt

As an analytics engineer, we recommend several handy tools for documenting your code. Tools such as dbt allow you to place...

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