The premier of my latest talk covering The State of Data Engineering. I go through the history of the industry to see where we’re heading. This starts with data warehousing and goes into data science. I finish off by showing how data engineering can avoid the...
Lately, I’ve been learning how to trade options. Although there’s data and programming involved in options trading, it isn’t as technical as data engineering or software engineering. However, it reflects the current state of learning, whether that’s data engineering...
A Guest Post by Ole Olesen-Bagneux In this blog post I would like to describe a new data team, that I call ‘the data discovery team’. It’s a team that connects naturally into the constellation of the three data teams Operations team Data engineering team Data...
The results and analysis from my 2023 Data Teams Survey left a few open questions. Let’s revisit these questions with some answers. Methodologies and Size of Company Figure 1 – Methodologies Broken Down By Size of Company Using Them We see a few commonalities...
Between January 24, 2023, and February 28, 2023, I ran a survey to get more data for my latest book Data Teams, and to update my previous survey from late 2020. Overall, we had 81 respondents. This survey was designed to get information about how management uses data...
I want to tell you a story about how my life changed. It wasn’t a cult, new religion, or programming language. A million monkeys changed my life. Ten years ago, I randomly recreated every work of Shakespeare. It was quite a project on the technical, news, and...