Create a Local dbt Project

How to create a local dbt project with dummy data for testing purposes with Docker

Giorgos Myrianthous
Towards Data Science
7 min readJan 12, 2023

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dbt (data build tool) is one of the hottest technologies in the data engineering and analytics space. Recently, I’ve been working on a task that performs some post-processing over dbt artefacts and wanted to write up some tests. In order to do so, I’ve had to create an example…

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