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Visual Guides/Data Pipeline
Data Engineering

Data Pipeline: Raw to Ready

12 messy employee records, 6 pipeline stages. Follow the data as it transforms from raw CSV, with nulls, duplicates, and outliers, into a clean, aggregated dataset ready for analysis.

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Ingest Stage

The pipeline ingests 12 employee records from a CSV export. Data is unvalidated: it arrives exactly as sent.

IDNameAgeSalaryDeptIssues
1Alice32$85,000Engineering
✓
2Bob28$72,000Engineering
✓
3Carol—$91,000Marketing
Missing
4Dave45—Sales
Missing
5Eve31$999,999Engineering
Outlier
6Frank38$67,000Marketting
Inconsistent
7Grace29$78,000Sales
✓
8Bob28$72,000Engineering
Duplicate
9Iris36$88,000Marketing
✓
10Jack41$95,000Sales
✓
11Karen33$81,000Engineering
✓
12Leo"thirty"$74,000Marketing
Type Error

Raw data arrives from multiple sources: CSV uploads, API responses, database dumps.

Output

12 raw records

Common Tools

Apache KafkaAWS S3AirbyteFivetran

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