Data Analyst Resources
The following table is a list of resources that I find/found helpful as a Data Engineer/Analyst. I’m appending to this list whenever I find something worth sharing. I hope you find it helpful! And I’d love if you suggest me resources that you consider missing from this list.
| Reference | Kind | Why read |
|---|---|---|
| Airbnb Engineering Blog1, 2, 3 | Data | General/data portal inspiration |
| Art of Unix programming4 | Prog | Teaches how to keep things simple |
| Data Warehousing in BigQuery5 | Data | How to do DM in modern DW like BigQuery |
| Databricks Documentation6 | Data | How to use Databricks effectively |
| Designing Data Intensive Applications7 | Data | Great book on distributed computing |
| Dremel paper8 | Data | The theory behind Parquet |
| Kimball Toolkit9 | Data | Dimensional Modeling (DM) canonical resource |
| Leverage Points10 | Org | How to change systems most effectively |
| Nubank Data Infra Talk11 | Data | Our data infrastructure |
| Scala Koans12 | Prog | Learn Scala interactively |
| Uber's Queryparser13 | Data | How Uber analyses internal data access |
Footnotes
1 The Rise of the Data Engineer - Maxime Beauchemin
2 The Downfall of the Data Engineer - Maxime Beauchemin
3 Democratizing Data at Airbnb - Chris C Williams
4 The Art of UNIX Programming - Eric S. Raymond
5 BigQuery for Data Warehouse Practitioners
6 https://docs.databricks.com/
7 Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann
8 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
9 The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling - Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
10 Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
11 Infraestrutura de dados no Nubank: Criando um ferramental para promover uma cultura data-driven
12 scala koans - scala 2.11 + scalatest 3
13 Queryparser, an Open Source Tool for Parsing and Analyzing SQL