Introduction to Data Engineering ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course is designed for students interested in working with and analyzing data with the goal of building scalable data pipelines to serve a variety of data consumers. The course focuses on using Python and SQL acquiring, cleaning, preprocessing, and storing data for use in downstream applications. Through hands-on data engineering exercises and a gentle introduction to the relevant tools, students will gain skills in deploying data pipelines to populate business analytics dashboards and fuel AI applications. This is a foundational required course in the B.S. in Data Science program. Prerequisite: CSCI 2020 – Introduction to Programming with Python, or equivalent course in Python programming