Hands-On Analytics Engineering
Now that we’ve discussed quite a lot of theory in the previous chapters, your hands might be itching to get to work with some technology! In this chapter, you will put theory into practice by helping an old friend gain analytical insights into their fledgling company. Along the way, you will use several tools for the heavy lifting and get acquainted with different parts of the analytical engineering stack. Additionally, you can access the book’s GitHub repository, which contains step-by-step instructions for setting up the tooling that will be used in the chapter.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Understanding the Stroopwafelshop use case
- Preparing Google Cloud
- ELT using Airbyte Cloud
- Modeling data using data build tool (dbt) Cloud
- Visualizing data with Tableau