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The Rise of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

I joined Facebook in 2011 as a business intelligence engineer. By the time I left in 2013, I was a data engineer. Instead, Facebook came to realize that the work we were doing transcended classic business intelligence. I wasn’t promoted or assigned to this new role.

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Creating Value With a Data-Centric Culture: Essential Capabilities to Treat Data as a Product

Ascend.io

Treating data as a product is more than a concept; it’s a paradigm shift that can significantly elevate the value that business intelligence and data-centric decision-making have on the business. Without them, data products can’t exist.

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Experts Share the 5 Pillars Transforming Data & AI in 2024

Monte Carlo

Gen AI can whip up serviceable code in moments — making it much faster to build and test data pipelines. Today’s LLMs can already process enormous amounts of unstructured data, automating much of the monotonous work of data science. Can I see the pipeline? Can I see the data source?’” That’s super exciting.”