From the course: Introduction to Modern Data Engineering with Snowflake

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You’ve probably done some data engineering in the past

You’ve probably done some data engineering in the past - Snowflake Tutorial

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You’ve probably done some data engineering in the past

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One thing that I love about data engineering is that its concepts are present in what might seem like everyday data tasks. If you've ever done anything with data in the past, there's a very good chance that you've performed data engineering or some aspect of it without even knowing it. For example, if you've ever used a spreadsheet to work with data, you've likely used the ingestion, transformation, and delivery framework. Say you had some raw data in a CSV file, and you imported it into a program like Excel or Google Sheets. When you did that, you performed data ingestion, and perhaps in the process of loading the data, you configured certain options like specifying the data format, the delimiter, and more. Once the raw data was loaded, you probably looked over the data and started thinking about how you might extract certain insights from it. Say, for example, you wanted to analyze a certain aspect of that raw data, like sales data, but you needed to perform some work against the…

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