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Starting Hand Standards
A reasonable set of opening requirements at most tables would be as follows:
**Early position**: Ten high or better badugis; Smooth 7 high tris or better
**Hijack**: Jack high or better badugis, Smooth 8 high tris or better
**Cut-off**: All badugis, 8 high tris or better, A2 and A3
**Button**: All badugis, 9 high tris or better, A2, A3, 23, A4
Badugi Rules and Basic Strategy
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When we unpack the common threads of how various people define data engineering, an obvious pattern emerges:
a **data engineer**
*gets data, stores it, and prepares it for consumption*
by **data scientists**, **analysts**, and others.
We define data engineering and data engineer as follows:
**Data engineering** is
the *development*, *implementation*, and *maintenance*
of **systems** and **processes** that take in raw data
and produce high-quality, consistent information
that supports downstream use cases,
such as analysis and machine learning.
**Data engineering** is
the intersection of
*security*,
*data management*,
*DataOps*,
*data architecture*,
*orchestration*, and
*software engineering*.
A **data engineer**
*manages the data engineering lifecycle*,
beginning with getting data from source systems and
ending with serving data for use cases,
such as analysis or machine learning.
Fundamentals of Data Engineering
Reis, Joe;Housley, Matt;
Here’s what the entity resolution query looks like:

I’m joining the table with itself on state + zipcode
to reduce the search space and
using string similarity thresholds
for filtering potential duplicates.
In entity resolution methodology this is known as “blocking.”
Fundamental Data Engineering Concepts - Part 2
Ergest Xheblati
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