Tell me the truth
In 2012, IBM declared that 90% of the data in the world had been created in the past 2 years. That same year, the amount of digital data in the world first exceeded 1 zetabyte (1 billion terabytes). In 2020, we're expected to reach 44 zetabytes. This big data era led to the advent of two new roles: data engineers and data scientists. You just studied the differences between these two roles.
Let's have a quick sanity check: which of the following options is true?
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Understanding Data Engineering
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