Tag: Data Engineer

Learner Spotlight: David Rushton

Meet David Rushton, a former Physical Education teacher who transitioned his career into data. After doing some research he found coding and decided to learn his new skills with Dataquest. Here’s his story… Q: First, what are your preferred pronouns? A: He/him Q: All right, David! What’s your current job title? At which company? A: […]

Learner Spotlight: Data Engineer Student Veena Sanjeeve

Meet Veena Sanjeeve, a graduate of Dataquest’s data engineering career path. Two months ago, Veena started her new job as a Data Engineer at a private IT firm. Here she works with distributed systems on AWS. Here’s her story . . . Q. Hey Veena, tell us a bit about your background … I’m rooted […]

Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Scientist — What’s the Difference?

In the fast-growing field of data, the “big three” job roles are data engineer, data analyst, and data scientist. Figure out which is the best fit for you.

From Priest to Data Engineer in Six Months: How Dataquest Helped Eddie

Eddie Kirkland was a priest and musician with no coding experience. Six months later, he’s now a full-time data engineer. Here’s how he did it.

How Dataquest Made the Difference for Stacey’s Data Job

Stacey had tried learning data science on other platforms, but it didn’t stick — she wasn’t making progress. Here’s how Dataquest made the difference.

Why You Should Learn Data Engineering

Why should you learn data engineering? Here are four big reasons. Spoiler alert: one of them is that it pays really, really well.

Starting Your Career in Data Science: What Are Your Options?

The first step in your data science job search: identifying what your options are, and what positions are the best fit for your skill set.

What is a Data Engineer?

Data engineers build pipelines that prepare and transform data for data scientists. We explore what a data engineer does, and why the role is necessary.