A New Scope

Andreas Kretz
Sep 6, 2018 · 2 min read

I’m bringing back the Podcast! Now called: “Plumbers of Data Science

For the past months I haven’t updated the podcast, because I simply didn’t have the time. I’m a newly father and, going from one to two kids, that took some time of getting into a routine again.

I’ve also decided, to change the direction of the podcast. A few months back I found out, that the direction of machine learning and the data scientist is not the direction I am heading.

I’m a data engineer.

I am working on processing data, on building platforms. It’s an awesome profession I want to help you get into too.

Many of you are looking into becoming data scientists while they should be going into data engineering.

Building up the infrastructure and the pipelines to make the data accessible to the data scientists. Enabling them to do the data science.

The machine learning, the analytics and all that fun stuff.

Plumbers of Data Science, because it’s a hands on podcast. I’m going to do a lot of long-form episodes without cutting the content.

Why would I publish raw podcasts?

Because, editing takes a lot of time I simply don’t have. So, it’s not always going to be so straightforward.

Because we consume too much polished content, raw is honest. Like live streaming which I want to get into as well.

What kind of content can you expect?

Usually I record on my daily commute from an to work. I talk about topics that help you directly on the data engineering path.

I’m planning to also do long form discussions with people in the data science field, like data scientists and fellow data engineers. Basically people who might help you to get more knowledge in the data science field.

What I am also looking into is doing live streams on my YouTube channel. Answering your questions and helping you directly.

Where can I listen to the Podcast?

The first address you should look into is my homepage. There, you can directly listen to the newest episode, and find the links to each platform.

Right now the Plumbers of Data Science Podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Pocketcasts, Radio Public and Overcast. (I still have problems getting it on iTunes)

I am also going to start uploading short clips to my SoundCloud.

Will there be a written version?

Of course!

On my Facebook page I already created a huge note, about what it takes to become a data engineer. I am going to put in topics from the podcast. One after the other.

It just takes a bit to transcribe the audio, so the Podcast will always be “fresher”

My goal is that we, as a community, end up with a collection of topics you should know and look into, to become a data engineer.

Your starting point on your journey.

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Andreas Kretz

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Data Engineer and Plumber of Data Science. I write about platform architecture, tools and techniques that are used to build modern data science platforms

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