You're reading from Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you get the most out of Office 365 and SharePoint Online

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838646677

Length 810 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Office 365

Concepts

Project Management

Authors (2):

Gaurav Mahajan

Sudeep Ghatak

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Data Engineering Concepts and Trends

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Data Engineering FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Data Management Architectures for Analytics

4. Chapter 3: The AWS Data Engineer's Toolkit

5. Chapter 4: Data Cataloging, Security, and Governance

6. Section 2: Architecting and Implementing Data Lakes and Data Lake Houses

7. Chapter 5: Architecting Data Engineering Pipelines

8. Chapter 6: Ingesting Batch and Streaming Data

9. Chapter 7: Transforming Data to Optimize for Analytics

10. Chapter 8: Identifying and Enabling Data Consumers

11. Chapter 9: Loading Data into a Data Mart

12. Chapter 10: Orchestrating the Data Pipeline

13. Section 3: The Bigger Picture: Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Machine Learning

14. Chapter 11: Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena

15. Chapter 12: Visualizing Data with Amazon QuickSight

16. Chapter 13: Enabling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up the First Part of Your Learning Journey

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Once your data is ingested into an appropriate AWS service, such as Amazon S3, the next stage of the pipeline needs to transform the data to optimize it for analytics and to make it available to your data consumers.

Some of the tools we discussed in the previous section for ingesting data into AWS can perform light transformations as part of the ingestion process. For example, Amazon DMS can write out data in Parquet format (a format optimized for analytics), as can Kinesis Firehose. However, heavier transformations are often required to fully optimize your data for a differing set of analytic tasks and diverse data consumers, and in this section, we will examine some of the core AWS services that can be used for this.

Overview of AWS Lambda for light transformations

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