Chapter 9

Building Analytics Use Cases

As I moved from being a network engineer to being a network engineer with some data science skills, I spent my early days trying to figure out how to use my network engineering and design skills to do data science work. After the first few years, I learned that simply building an architecture to gather data did not lead to customer success like building resilient network architectures enabled new business success. I could build a dozen big data environments. I could get the quick wins of setting up full data pipelines into centralized repositories. But I learned that was not enough. The real value comes from applying additional data feature engineering, analysis, trending, and visualization to uncover the ...

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