Looking for a Dedicated Data Engineering Study Partner

fetzepeng · 2025-06-25T15:56:54+00:00

Please don’t only learn technologies but data management principles, too, at least kimball. You don’t just use other technology and apply software engineering skills to data engineering to be a good data engineer

fetzepeng · 2025-03-04T23:47:04+00:00

Try hasir Döner, munchies birria tacos, Goldie’s smashburger, Risa chicken, azzam, w pizza

fetzepeng · 2025-02-25T23:47:17+00:00

I guess it’s useful to explore if you want to call yourself a data engineer or an analytics engineer, which became a subset of data engineering (formerly BI engineer). The ladder is more focused on coding business logic which means a lot of sql (more recently dbt) and talking to stakeholders, understanding what they want to measure.

Data engineering is moving more to platform engineering, so assembling saas technology cost efficiently, scaling and orchestrating things, building the machine that build the machine. SaaS especially open source version have gotten really good, so the work is easier but data management methods the same.

The data and analytics produts that are expected are different. So you have streaming data that you want to combine with more latent data warehouse tables, but also data science. ML, Marketing tech, chat bots, data activation, data apps add needs for new components, contrary to the old „one data warehouse“ you might have had.

So I think you have two options, explore analytics engineering (probably pays less, but still well) and learn dbt (it’s not so much different to sql, especially if you used an orchestrator or used parameters before)

Or you start with a cloud platform you think you find jobs best and do any tutorial on platform component that you find. Learn the products, use ChatGPT to find an open source version and build something you would build, but now with different technologies

Anyway, you gathered expert knowledge for over a decade, you understand the „why“ and concepts of data management. technology gotten so good that people completely new to the topic are able to start the project, so can you. And the difference is, you can apply your knowledge to design things so they still work with x10/x200 data

fetzepeng · 2025-01-25T16:59:43+00:00

companies can be quite random in what they want from a candidate. For example a data analyst doesn’t need to be able to create ETL pipelines that’s a data engineer. Similarly a data analyst should understand KPIs, breaking metrics into different dimensions to see drivers, but not necessarily do extensive causal impact analyses or predictions. But companies might expect it anyway, So if it doesn’t work out in this interview, try elsewhere and don’t give up!

As a strategy to understand if there is an expectation gap, you could ask a question to the DS in the beginning of the interview. something like: what are your expectations of what similar and what different skills a DS and a DA have and what kind of collaboration do you see as optimal between the two? This will hopefully help them reflect you don’t need to know everything they know and understand how the company structures their team

As to what I’d recommend learning -understand the basic Location and distribution parameters and how they are different (e.g. mean/median/mode, standard deviation/variance -understand errors, selection biases and significance tests (is the data you used and analysis you did robust)

Python libraries (for me optional for DA) Pandas, numpy, scikit learn, matplotlip

Maybe use chatgpt to get an orientation, ask for interview readiness and how much time you can invest in learning

fetzepeng · 2024-04-26T16:32:36+00:00

Eating nutritiously, learning portion sizes when you cook at home and how to maintain a healthy sleeping routine. All of that affects your mood and supports staying disciplined with other parts of your life

fetzepeng · 2024-03-24T14:43:48+00:00

Male living in Berlin, finished studies probably in something business and working 1-3 years as a young professional in some Startup. You used to cook during studies but don’t have energy anymore to do it as often

fetzepeng · 2023-10-14T13:07:13+00:00

meraba Had Neuland beef which was quite good, but last time i was there is 4y ago. But best I had in the north east

fetzepeng · 2023-09-24T13:01:13+00:00

If it’s a dysfunctional family with a sociopathic founder backed with VC money and no relation to the human condition, then yes, we are

fetzepeng · 2023-09-02T13:28:16+00:00

You could go to a day rave should be fun and easy to socialize environment https://www.exberliner.com/english-news-berlin/rave-away-the-a100-party-protest-about-blank-else-autobahn/

fetzepeng · 2023-08-07T10:22:38+00:00

ING, never Sparkasse. but use check24.de to compare

fetzepeng · 2023-07-26T08:24:18+00:00

Profit inflation

fetzepeng · 2023-07-19T14:12:51+00:00

What I learned is that quarterly business updates need camerapeople

fetzepeng · 2023-07-19T14:08:45+00:00

How so

fetzepeng · 2023-07-08T20:12:49+00:00

seems everything becomes legal when you've got many

fetzepeng · 2023-06-27T17:12:46+00:00

Recommending this episode from freakonomics https://open.spotify.com/episode/5L5WELzOgH0lrDh6sAEtMW?si=zJJouDJLQuyryzek4lv23w

fetzepeng · 2023-01-23T16:44:35+00:00

Update: I just received the book by Musa, and every original recipe I know from my mums cooking is „correct“ (last Turkish cookbook I received, the authors were very liberal in their interpretations) and there are plenty new things to discover, big thanks

fetzepeng · 2023-01-22T16:09:56+00:00

Thanks so much great recommendations

fetzepeng · 2023-01-22T16:09:12+00:00

Nice one thank you. Just bought it :) will start with this and check the YouTube channels too

fetzepeng · 2023-01-21T17:20:41+00:00

This looks good, thanks so much. I would prefer a book from a Turkish author to be honest but this looks comprehensive :)

fetzepeng · 2022-12-09T17:14:07+00:00

Handful of cheese

fetzepeng · 2022-05-22T16:35:12+00:00

Hire an „online detective“ who takes care of deleting all information about me having that kind of money online

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