From the course: Analytics Engineering 101
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Analytics engineer responsibilities
From the course: Analytics Engineering 101
Analytics engineer responsibilities
So, to summarize those scenarios, we talked about multiple sources of truth and how with an analytics engineer, you can get a single source of truth. For the raw to BI-ready data, we talked about how the role of an analytics engineer is to take that raw data and clean it and model it into analytics-ready tables. And for metric changes, we talked about how an analytics engineer can create these consistent version definitions of metrics. Now, these three scenarios cover the wide range of responsibilities that an analytics engineer might have. So for the first scenario, an analytics engineer is responsible for data governance. So that includes things like who owns the data, what access permissions does everyone have, and what are the standards that a company needs to follow, as well as documentation. So making sure that every part of the data is documented, so that consumers and analysts down the line are able to get and understand the data that they need. In addition, an AE is…
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