One film
The Inner Life of Data
Follow one enrolment from a tap on a phone to a decision, through Databricks and dbt.
Learning Data
Topics
Six topics, each with its films and series. Start with how a data platform works, then pick the topic you need. Your progress stays in this browser.
Start here: for everyone
Data platforms
How data moves through a modern data platform, from a tap on a phone to a decision.
For anyone who designs models, definitions or reports
Data modelling
What the numbers mean, and the shapes that hold them: words and definitions first, then models, before any system.
One film
A Sharper Sketch
Two trusted numbers disagree. When does a simple model need more precision, and how do you use a reference model without copying it?
Series · 7 films
From words to data
Seven films on data modelling, from how minds turn the world into words to how AI can help keep meaning true.
For analytics engineers
Analytics engineering
How an agreed data model becomes tested, documented tables, with dbt.
Series · 10 films
In the weeds of data crafting
From one question to tested, versioned and documented dbt models, with an AI agent that helps at every step and a person who approves each one.
For anyone who builds pipelines, or owns a source system or a data product
Data quality and change
What goes wrong on a data platform, and what catches it: changes, data contracts and tests.
Series · 2 films
When things go wrong
Two bad mornings at the university: a change only half of it saw, and a number too good to be true. Each ends with what catches it next time.
For architects, and anyone new to an organisation
Enterprise architecture
How an organisation works, in layers, before you ask what its data should answer.
Series · 11 films
The map before the data
A new enterprise architect maps a public energy utility, layer by layer, before asking what its data should answer.
For data stewards and architects, and anyone whose data lives in many systems
Master and reference data
The people and things a business is about, kept once and shared across its systems, and the lists that sort them.
Series · 9 films
The same one, everywhere
One person, four systems, five records. A series on master and reference data, from the person behind the role to a hub at work.