The rise of the analytics engineers

Let's understand what is analytics engineering and where it fits in a company's data organisation.

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Dinuraj Sugumaran
August 30, 2023

Welcome to this week's Five Data Points.

I'm Dinuraj, and I want to share with you five interesting articles I've read this week that I believe will be valuable to you.

1 - Analytics Engineering - the hub of the “Modern Data Stack”

What is Analytics Engineering?

Analytics engineers provide clean data sets to end users, modeling data in a way that empowers end users to answer their own questions.

2 - What do you need to become an analytics engineer?

Aspiring Analytics Engineers, Start Here.

3 - Transitioning to analytics engineering from data engineering

Tired of your Data Engineering Role?

4 - A contrarian take on the trend of analytics engineering

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The job nobody wanted is now the job we can’t get enough of.

Why do people want to be analytics engineers?

5 - The tug of war between advertising, privacy, and regulation

The EU's war on behavioural advertising

I hope these articles enriched your thinking with fresh perspectives and deeper insight. Let me know if any of the articles especially resonate with you, or you have topics that you want explored further.

If you found any value in this at all, do pass it along to your friends and colleagues who you think might benefit from it.

Thanks for joining me on this journey of expanding our knowledge about data. I'll see you again next week with more to learn.

Dinuraj Sugumaran