Zero to Hero: DATAQUEST's Become a Data Engineer

Here's how to get DataQuest's Data Engineering Track missions' content to work on your localhost. Using data from my Valenbisi ARIMA modeling project, I will walk through steps using PostgreSQL, Postico, and the Command Line to get our DataQuest exercises running out of a Jupyter Notebook.

This will not be a complete repitition of the many resources I used, so be sure to look out for any links I include if it seems I've skipped a few steps.

Important note: In DataQuest, each exercise re-initiates the connection and cursor class of psycopg2 when interacting with the Postgres DB, with no deliberate closing of the connection. When we productionize our scripts, it will be more efficient and correct to use a with statement, which will close the connection once the operations are complete. For the sake of the exercises, I will follow DataQuest's format. I will switch to the with statement as we approach production.

There will be Three Directories in this Repository, each aligning with DataQuest's Data Engineer Track. Each directory will contain a README.md with more details on the content covered in it.

• Production Databases
  • Postgres For Data Engineers
    • Intro to Postgres
    • Creating Tables
    • Managing Created Tables
    • Loading and Extracting Data with Tables
    • User and Database Management
    • Project: Storing Tropical Storm Data
  • Optimizing Postgres Databases
    • Exploring Postgres Internals
    • Debugging Postgres Queries
    • Using an Index
    • Advanced Indexing
    • Vacuuming Postgres Databases
• Handling Large Data Sets In Python
  • Processing Large Datasets in Pandas
    • Optimizing Dataframe Memory Footprint
    • Processing Dataframes in Chunks
    • Guided Project: Practice Optimizing Dataframes and Processing in Chunks
    • Augmenting Pandas with SQLite
    • Guided Project: Analyzing Startup Fundraising Deals from Crunchbase
  • Optimizing Code Performance on Large Datasets
    • CPU Bound Programs
    • I/O Bound Programs
    • Overcoming the Limitations of Threads
    • Quickly Analyzing Data with Parallel Processing
    • Guided Project: Analyzing Wikipedia Pages
  • Algorithms and Data Structures
    • Processing Tasks with Stacks and Queues
    • Effectively Using Arrays and Lists
    • Sorting Arrays and Lists
    • Searching Arrays and Lists
    • Hash Tables
    • Guided Project: Analyzing Stock Prices
  • Recursion and Trees
    • Overview of Recursion
    • Introduction to Binary Trees
    • Implementing a Binary Heap
    • Working with Binary Search Trees
    • Performance Boosts of Using a B-Tree
    • Performance Boosts of Using a B-Tree II
    • Guided Project: Implementing a Key-Value Database
• Data Pipelines
  • Building a Data Pipeline
    • Functional Programming
    • Pipeline Tasks
    • Building a Pipeline Class
    • Multiple Dependency Pipeline
    • Guided Project: Hackernews Pipeline

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I highly reccommend participating in this course as a member of DATAQUEST.