Data: Where Engineering and Science Meet

Does the divide between data engineering and data science still hold?

In some places, certainly: the engineers responsible for moving, storing, and maintaining raw data and the specialists who process, visualize, and analyze it stay in their distinct lanes. In many contexts and organizations, however, things have gotten a lot hazier. One person (or a single team) might be tasked with a range of duties that fall along the spectrum between traditional data engineering and data science work.

This week, …

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