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Data Engineering with AWS

You're reading from   Data Engineering with AWS Acquire the skills to design and build AWS-based data transformation pipelines like a pro

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804614426
Length 636 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gareth Eagar Gareth Eagar
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Preface 1. Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends
2. An Introduction to Data Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Management Architectures for Analytics 4. The AWS Data Engineer’s Toolkit 5. Data Governance, Security, and Cataloging 6. Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Engineering Pipelines and Transformations
7. Architecting Data Engineering Pipelines 8. Ingesting Batch and Streaming Data 9. Transforming Data to Optimize for Analytics 10. Identifying and Enabling Data Consumers 11. A Deeper Dive into Data Marts and Amazon Redshift 12. Orchestrating the Data Pipeline 13. Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning
14. Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena 15. Visualizing Data with Amazon QuickSight 16. Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 17. Section 4: Modern Strategies: Open Table Formats, Data Mesh, DataOps, and Preparing for the Real World
18. Building Transactional Data Lakes 19. Implementing a Data Mesh Strategy 20. Building a Modern Data Platform on AWS 21. Wrapping Up the First Part of Your Learning Journey 22. Other Books You May Enjoy
23. Index

Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

For a long time, organizations could only dream of the competitive advantage they would get if they could accurately forecast demand for their products, personalize recommendations for their customers, and automate complex tasks. And yet, advancements in machine learning (ML) over the past decade or so have made many of these things, and much more, a reality.

ML describes the process of training computers in a way that mimics how humans learn to perform several tasks. ML uses a variety of advanced algorithms and, in most cases, large amounts of data to develop and train an ML model. This model can then be used to examine new data and automatically draw insights from that data.

The difference between AI and ML is not always clear, and people tend to use the terms somewhat interchangeably. AI focuses on creating machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as problem-solving, decision-making,...

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