Data Engineer : Understanding this cutting-edge, high-demand job around data

Serigne DIAW
5 min readApr 24, 2022

At school I followed a rather generalist training, my objective was to orient myself towards data-related jobs that deal with all aspects : from data collection to statistical exploitation and machine learning, including storage and management of massive and distributed databases such as big data.

The objective of this article is to focus on a few key concepts/businesses involved in the data domain and to show how they fit together to reach the current state of the art. My ambition here is simply to…

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