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Why Does Analytics Engineering Exist?

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In 2016, Tristan Handy wrote about the need for data analysts to start working like software engineers. How's that transition going?

What is analytics engineering? | dbt Labs Blog / Learn / What is analytics engineering? What is analytics engineering? Claire Carroll Originally published on Mar 26, 2019 A year ago, I was preparing a presentation for an event and the title slide asked me to fill in my role. I had been hired as a “Data Analyst”, and when I started the role, I spent my time doing normal data analyst things. I pulled data for finance and marketing, analyzed trends and generated insights, and spent lots of time in Excel and Looker. However, my role had been changing dramatically. Finance and marketing were able t

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