Ask HN: Online classes to become a data engineer?

8 points by pastaking 9 years ago | 2 comments

Are there are online classes one can take to become a professional data engineer? That is, become good at data modelling, data cleaning, building pipelines, monitor data quality, etc?

This question is inspired by the Google Data Engineer certification exam: https://cloud.google.com/certification/guides/google-certified-professional-data-engineer.pdf

More detail on exam here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/01/registration-now-open-for-google-data-engineer-certification-exam-in-beta

vishalzone2002 9 years ago |

There is http://insightdataengineering.com/ program that could be useful. I work as a data engineer as well and I am working on a ebook to cover some technologies and topics. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions. ATB

tixocloud 9 years ago |

I've mostly learned through consulting and analytics experience and with the help of Ralph Kimball's book "The Data Warehouse Toolkit". You'll also want to look up Bill Inmon as he proposes a different methodology to data warehouses.

Happy to answer questions if you have any.