Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that 200 zettabytes of data would have been created and stored by 2025.
Storing and managing such large volumes of data requires more complicated data management systems and more skilled data engineers. Deriving value from the data created and stored in your company cloud and offline data stores needs a keen eye on details and a data engineering team with the right skill sets. Whether you’re a machine learning engineer, data engineer, or data scientist, stay tuned to know the importance of data-engineering in managing data extracted from complex data sources.
Data Analyzing and Organization
Raw data extracted from complex sources requires complex BI tools to be converted into analyzable and conceptual data. Data engineers use classification or clustering machine learning models to assess, label and classify unstructured data. They use entity extraction tools, geotagging, and classification models to identify key data points and create structured data, collectible and interpretable with analytics software. Structured data (comprising objective numbers and facts) is easy to store and organize in different formats, including SQL, Excel, and Google Sheets. Data engineers have access to high-end computing and machine learning systems, powerful enough to convert data from every source, including the most complicated sources known to man.
Building of Data Pipelines and Systems
Complex data takes more effort and sophisticated data systems, and robust pipelines to process and store. Cleansing, converting, and routing data from complex sources to designated destination systems is pretty a hassle. Data engineers have the skill sets, business intelligence tools, and analytic tools required to extract data from SaaS platforms and other related stores and configure it for easy storage into data warehouses.
Data engineers are industry-wise equipped and skilled to create efficient, robust, and scalable data pipelines with the capability to identify and collect and process data points from different users in real-time. Industry-specific data pipelines and systems have powerful implements and features to conduct thorough fact-finding analyses to find answers to different organization-related problems. Data engineers develop data pipelines with transformational functions, data sources, ingestion components, and destinations to streamline the process of data capturing, cleansing, and storage.
Data Visualization
Big and hard-to-visualize data from complex sources adds no value to your organization until it’s converted into usable and readable formats. Data-engineering entails conducting thorough data analysis and assessment of data patterns and trends of the target company to extract valuable reports in the format of data visualizations and dashboards. Analyzing and assessing the patterns and trends of the data flowing in and out of your company allows for easy identification of key data points to ease the conversion and usability of the company’s data. Regardless of your business size, extensive monitoring of data patterns and trends can enable data engineers to optimize the usefulness of the data flowing into your company and set your IT data infrastructure for optimal efficiency.
Data Footprint Growth
Small and large companies need access to meaningful industry-specific growth trends and insights to adjust their operations accordingly. Business owners can tell how their businesses and customers work to channel the business efforts and finances to the right processes through data-specific insights. Every process and technique implemented in your company leaves a data footprint, which can significantly impact your company’s growth if adequately managed. Data engineering comes in handy in such a situation. Data-engineering improves analysis of large data, optimization of data pipeline throughout, data warehouse scalability, real-time data-driven predictions, and data regulations.
Data engineers can help set up efficient data management platforms to enable businesses to manage their data regardless of the source efficiently. A data engineer works closely with your other team to maximize data privacy, security and compliance while boosting the usability of the data created and stored in your cloud systems or warehouse. Whether the data is sourced from external or internal company sources, engineers can help you improve the data footprint and increase the usefulness of every piece of data channeled in and out of your company.
Extracting Value out of Data
Data engineers work effortlessly to parse and convert messy data from different business departments. By making the data readable and usable by the target audience (business owners, machine learning engineers, cloud storage providers, and IT companies, data engineers allow for optimal usability of the company data. Data engineers can effortlessly extract disorganized data from legacy systems, data encodings, complicated message queue configurations, and large files to create valuable structured data that primarily benefit the target company. Most of these are complex processes requiring a knowledgeable team of data scientists, data product owners, and data engineers. Based on this fact, every company with the motivation and zeal to grow should have a complete team comprising industry specialists focused on different aspects of data-management.
Understands Industry-Specific Practices and Standards
Data consumers don’t have the computing and technical knowledge to convert, analyze, and store data correctly and efficiently. Managing the vast chunks of data that flow into every business every day is a big challenge to many business owners. Data engineers have the technical and computing skills to safely analyze, transform, and store complex and large data. They know the industry-specific procedures, standards, and guidelines to adhere to when managing different data types. In addition, data engineers know how to create tools and technologies needed to manage large and messy data from complicated sources effectively. By implementing such procedures and developing relevant tools and technologies, data-engineers streamline the data-management processes.
Data-engineering offers the tools and technologies needed to streamline the management of data sourced from complex sources. Data engineers have the skillsets to create the tools and technologies required to ease data management while adhering to all industry-specific guidelines, procedures, and standards. When dealing with large and cluttered data, they know how to maneuver through the complex data algorithms and systems to create valuable insights from the data created and stored in your company warehouse or cloud systems. Data engineering isn’t the same as machine learning, and data engineers don’t play the same role as machine learning experts.