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107: Building Modern Data Teams with dbt Labs, REI, and Robinhood

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Is There a Data Engineer Role in the Data Team?

Analyst is probably the right place to start because you have to answer those first fundamental questions based on the data sets that are get you the fastest answers. As your analyses get more complex and you start relying on more data sets you need to bring in technical reinforcement so you might add on your first data engineer as your outputs get more complex then you start making the leap from analytics to data science. If you're really lucky you will have a program manager not only for your analytics workstream before your data platform itself we were really lucky to have that at CNN it was a major asset. It's all part of that three-legged stool between your engineering management, program management and your product management which

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