Analytics Engineering Resources

I’ve been going down the “Analytics Engineering” rabbit hole. Mostly it is content for how data orgs are developing and delivering analytics by incorporating best practices from software engineering.

Below is a list of resources I’ve referred back to when applying it in my own work.

Articles

1. When did analytics engineering become a thing? And why?
2. The Analytics Engineer
3. My journey introducing the data build tool (dbt) in project’s analytical stacks
4. Converting Looker PDTs to dbt models: Reasons why (and why not)

Podcasts

1. DBT: Data Build Tool with Tristan Handy on Software Engineering Daily
2. #151: The Rise of the Analytics Engineer with Claire Carroll on Digital Analytics Power Hour

Conferences

1. dbt Coalesce 2020

Tutorials

1. dbt Tutorial