Sebastian
Tell us a bit about what you do at the customer’s site!
I was asked to jump into an ongoing project with a customer where I am building a new data platform together with four other consultants from Solita. I personally work a lot in the back-office, where I retrieve data from various source systems and bake these in Azure Data factory with the help of Python. Then I structure these files to fit in a Lake-raw and Lake-Formatted.
What has been the most fun so far?
The most fun thing has simply been getting into the work as a consultant and actually getting to work on something ‘real’. It’s great to be part of a team that works together to achieve a common goal – so the new community I’ve gained through this project is also something I really value.
How have you used the knowledge you gained during the weeks at the Academy?
The weeks at the Academy gave me a basic understanding of what you could run into when you are on a project. This made it easier, as I was not too surprised when I had to familiarise myself with the new project – because the project had roughly the same structure as the one presented at the Academy.
What do you hope to learn more about in the future?
I’m doing a lot of back-office work at the moment, which is really fun – but I’d like to become more skilled at the front end as well. I’d therefore like to try working with Tableau and PowerBI as well at some point in the future.
Stina
What do you do at the customer’s site!
I work on building visualisations and dashboards in the Tableau visualisation tool.
What has been the most fun so far?
Contact with the customer: I enjoy discussing the customer’s business issues and then finding ways to analyse and visualise them, so they gain a better understanding of their business.
How have you used the knowledge you gained during the weeks at the Academy?
I’ve used, in particular, what I learned during the practical sessions on visualisation. But the session on self-leadership has helped me in my daily work, too.
What do you still hope to learn more about in the future or immerse yourself in?
Of course, I want to continue to develop in Tableau. It’d be fun to try a project where you get to work with maps!
Krisztian
Tell us a bit about what you do at the customer’s site!
The customer needs help moving their existing data to new systems and creating an architecture for their data structure that will be able to handle 1000x more data than they use today. I write SQL queries that clean the existing data and give it a logical structure that facilitates the analysis of their data in a clear way.
What has been the most fun so far?
I really enjoy SQL, so I’d say that writing SQL code has been the most fun.
How have you used the knowledge you gained during the weeks at the Academy?
The most relevant thing from the Academy in the customer project was the part where we learned about data modelling. In the customer project, we’re designing a solution that applies fact tables and dimensions, which was a modelling technique we went through at the Academy.
What do you still hope to learn more about in the future or immerse yourself in?
I hope to have the opportunity to immerse myself in writing SQL and python code and AWS.
Joel
What do you do at the customer’s site?
I’m helping to build a new database in Snowflake.
What has been the most fun so far?
The most fun has been all the detective work, working and digging into the data, and coming up with insights on how it can be used!
How have you used the knowledge you gained during the weeks at the Academy?
As we spend a lot of time on Snowflake, and everything we learnt about it was very relevant to what I do now. I’ve also made a lot of use of Tableau and what we have learned there to visualise the data and create better understanding.
What do you still hope to learn more about in the future or immerse yourself in?
All sorts of things! I find what I’m doing now both fun and exciting. I’d like to immerse myself more in Snowflake but I also want to learn more about the different cloud services, i.e. AWS, GCP, and Azure.