From Digital Marketing to Analytics Engineering - Nikola Maksimovic

We talked about: Nikola’s background Making the first steps towards a transition to BI and Analytics Engineering Learning the skills necessary to transition to Analytics Engineering The in-between period – from Marketing to Analytics Engineering Nikola’s current responsibilities Understanding what a Data Model is Tools needed to work as an Analytics Engineer The Analytics Engineering role over time The importance of DBT for Analytics Engineers Where can one learn about data modeling theory? Going from Ancient Greek and Latin to understanding Data (Just-In-Time Learning) The importance of having domain knowledge to analytics engineering Suggestion for those wishing to transition into analytics engineering The importance of having a mentor when transitioning Finding a mentor Helpful newsletters and blogs Finding Nikola online Links: Nikola's LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikola-maksimovic-40188183/ ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html