The article introduces dbt (data build tool), an open-source analytics engineering tool that focuses on transforming data in the context of analytics. It highlights the key features and benefits of dbt, including modularity, SQL-based transformations, version control, testing and documentation, and data lineage analysis. The article also discusses the difference between dbt Core (an open-source command line tool) and dbt Cloud (a browser-based UI for deploying dbt). Finally, it provides an overview of the components of a dbt project and offers a demo on using dbt for data transformation and modeling.
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