Explaining Data Engineering to a 5 Year-Old (data is mud)

You are at the playground, and it starts raining. What happens to the soil? It gets muddy - and then you can try to play with it and make shapes out of it. Maybe get a bit creative and colors it or add engravement?

What does that have to do with data engineering? Well, data in this story is mud, and trust me data can get muddy.

A data engineer's job is to collect the mud, see if it can …

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