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Medallion architecture: Bronze data - Data Build Tool (dbt) Tutorial
From the course: Data Engineering with dbt
Medallion architecture: Bronze data
- [Instructor] So, we're now ready to finally build our DBT project and we're going to start with our bronze data. Now, bronze data should be in a mostly raw state, where minor transformations are made to make it easier to manage data within your analytical database. For our use case, we're going to take a subset of the parking violation data columns. We should have the following tables added to our database when we're done: bronze parking violation codes and bronze parking violations. To do this, we're going to create a new folder within our models directory called bronze. We're first going to make sure we're in the NYC parking violations folder. And now, we're going to make a bronze folder within the models directory with the CLI command, make directory, so mkdir models bronze. And now, we can see in our folder, we now have a bronze, but it's completely empty. And so now we need to create our SQL files for our model. To…
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