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4. The Data Engineering Team

Jesse Anderson1  
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Reno, NV, USA
 

Looking for a man with a focus and a temper

Who can open up a map and see between one and two

—“Teen Age Riot” by Sonic Youth

A data engineering team is responsible for creating data products and the architecture to build data products. These data products are really the lifeblood of the rest of the organization. The rest of the organization either consumes these data products—deriving insights that drive planning—or creates derivative data products for further use.

On the architecture side, it is up to the data engineering team to create data pipelines. A data pipeline is a process to take raw data ...

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