Modeling Your Data

This lesson focuses on understanding common data formats and interfaces. It explores some common data formats that you'll encounter as a data engineer. Basically, the goal is to develop a deep understanding of what the pros and cons of storing your data in different ways is. We're then going to focus on how to translate that high-level ethereal concept into a more concrete understanding and really showcase how the same dataset can be accessed and viewed differently if you were to just simply store it in a different fashion.

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Learning Objectives

• Learn about different data sources and formats, and how to model your data
• Get acquainted with the common data formats — CSV, XLM, and JSON — as well as specialized data formats
• Learn about databases and how to exchange data between applications

Intended Audience

This lesson is suited to anyone looking to gain a practical, hands-on understanding of data modeling and for those who might want to change how they're storing their data. 

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should familiarize yourself with the concepts of what a CSV and a JSON is, along with databases at a high level.