1. What Is Data Engineering (vs Data Science / Analytics)
Chala mitrano, Data Engineering mhanje pipes — data swachh ani trustworthy tables. DS models, analytics dashboards — DE tyanna raw material deto.
What you will learn in this chapter
- What data engineers own day to day
- DE vs analytics vs data science
- India retail pipeline story
- Skills map for this course
- Practice
Fictional labs
India retail stories (Raja Traders Nagpur, Mauli Dairy Pune) are fictional. Spark samples are tiny/local — no live cluster claimed.
Concepts in this chapter
- 1.1Pipes, Not Just Charts
- 1.2DE vs Analytics vs Data Science
- 1.3India Retail Pipeline Story
- 1.4Practice, Tip and Close
The chapter recap is at the end of the last concept page.