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Data Science Foundations: Data Engineering

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Discover the basics of big data with a data science expert. Learn about how to perform core data engineering tasks including staging, profiling, cleansing, and migrating data.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Ecosystem Overview
  • Data science system overview
  • Star schema design overview
  • Where does data engineering fit?
  • Components of a good data pipeline
  • Environment setup
2. Staging Data
  • Loading and profiling data
  • Data quality testing
3. Cleansing Data
  • Adding data types
  • Handling missing values
  • Verifying addresses
4. Conforming Data
  • Performing master data lookups
  • Handling inferred members
5. Delivering Analytical Data Sets
  • Loading the star schema
  • Loading dimension tables
  • Loading fact tables
  • Creating views
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ben Sullins

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