Tech Talk with Toni

IBM 350 Disk Storage:  a huge stack of metal plates that could store up to 5,000,000 characters In school, you learn the ropes of programming and might even find yourself tackling odd assignments, like creating a cricket simulator in C++ in just two weeks.  In the professional world, ad hoc report requests can cause anxiety. Gone are the days of set deadlines.  Fear not, as you can now utilize low-code software to easily create programs by dragging and dropping tools for a wide range of tasks. Today, our focus will be on the ETL process. In case you're not familiar with the acronym ETL, it stands for Extract, Transform, and Load - the essential steps in the data pipeline. This process involves extracting data from multiple sources, transforming it into a desired format or structure, and loading it into a target system for analysis or reporting. However, this repetitive process can be time-consuming as it often involves cleaning, joining, filtering, and aggregating data. A...