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From Data Science to Data Engineering - Ellen König

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We talked about:

  • Ellen’s background
  • Why Ellen switched from data science to data engineering
  • The overlap between data science and data engineering
  • Skills to learn and improve for data engineering
  • Ways to pick up and improve skills (advice for making the transition)
  • What makes a data engineering course “good”
  • Languages to know for data engineering
  • The easiest part of transitioning into data engineering
  • The hardest part of transitioning into data engineering
  • Common data engineering team distributions
  • People who are both data scientists and data engineers
  • Pet projects and other ways to pick up development skills
  • Dealing with cloud processing costs (alerts, billing reports, trial periods)
  • Advice for getting into entry level positions
  • Which cloud platform should data engineers learn?


    • Links:

    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ellen_koenig
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenkoenig/

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