Data Engineers DC is a professional group that meets monthly to discuss topics including all things related to Data Engineering such as open data, data gathering, data munging, and the creation, storage and maintenance of datasets. We combine presentations with hands-on workshops, always seeking to make our data munging lives easier.
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Location: Excella Consulting - 2300 Wilson Blvd, #600, Arlington, VA, 22209
Come up to the 6th floor! Excella is across the street from the Courthouse metro, and there is a paid street parking and a paid garage on N Adam's st.
Agenda:
5:30-6:30pm: Food & Networking
6:30-6:45pm: Introductions
6:45-8:00pm: Presentations & Discussion
Talk: Pydantic, Parsing, and Pipelines
This talk dives into how Pydantic can supercharge your data engineering workflows. With its powerful data validation, type enforcement, and transformation capabilities, Pydantic is a natural fit for building resilient, maintainable pipelines. Whether you’re extracting raw data, loading structured models, or transforming datasets downstream, Pydantic provides reusable, declarative schemas that stay consistent across your ELT process. Those same models can drive API contracts, generate documentation, and even help produce SQL, making your code more unified, flexible, and future-proof. From ingestion to output, Pydantic helps you catch bad data early, enforce structure, and write cleaner, more reliable systems.
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Data Engineers DC is a program of DC2. Learn more at www.dc2.org
