10 Years Worth of Valuable Advice From a Data Engineer (Navigate the DataWorld)
A Decade’s Voyage through the World of Data
I remember the first time I ever typed ‘SELECT * FROM.’ I was 18 and had no idea what I was doing. I clearly remember thinking, ‘Star,’ what?
I also remember the first database I ever dropped – accidentally (it was in development if you were wondering).
I also remember restoring it — sharpish.
I remember figuring out how to load CSV files — we still used those surprisingly — clean them up, removed white spaces and special characters, added a column and loaded it into a table. Amazed by it all.
Those were the early days.
It blows my mind what you can do with data. How many problems it can solve and how many companies sit on gold mines of the stuff, doing nothing with it.
I’ve been doing this data thing for well over 15 years. Actually, it’s more like 20, but I don’t count the missing 5 years. I was young and foolish, as youth often are.
Nowadays, I have a hunger for learning, a passion for data, and for figuring things out.
I love helping people and lifting people up.
