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section 00

Foundations

The baseline every data role requires. Complete this before branching into a specialization.

  1. 01

    Python Basics

    // Variables to pandas

    12h
  2. 02

    SQL Basics

    // Query like you mean it

    10h
  3. 03

    Git & GitHub

    // Version everything

    6h
  4. 04

    Command Line

    // Live in the terminal

    5h
  5. 05

    Statistics Basics

    // Think in distributions

    10h
  6. 06

    AI Literacy

    // Work with the machines

    6h

section 01

Data Engineering

Build the infrastructure. Design robust pipelines, manage massive datasets, and ensure data quality and accessibility.

  1. 01

    ETL Concepts

    // Extract, Transform, Load

    10h
  2. 02

    Data Modeling

    // Dimensional modeling

    12h
  3. 03

    dbt

    // Data build tool

    12h
  4. 04

    Workflow Orchestration

    // Airflow / Prefect

    12h
  5. 05

    Cloud Platforms

    // AWS / GCP

    14h
  6. 06

    Spark — Advanced

    // Distributed compute

    16h
  7. 07

    Real-time Streaming

    // Kafka

    16h
  8. 08

    Vector DBs & LLM Infra

    // Data for AI systems

    12h

section 02

Data Analysis

Turn messy data into decisions. Master exploration, visualization, dashboards, and data storytelling.

  1. 01

    Exploratory Data Analysis

    // Interrogate the data

    10h
  2. 02

    Data Visualization

    // Matplotlib, Seaborn

    10h
  3. 03

    Dashboard Design

    // Interfaces for decisions

    10h
  4. 04

    Data Storytelling

    // Insight to action

    8h
  5. 05

    BI Tools

    // Looker, Power BI, Metabase

    12h
  6. 06

    AI-Assisted Analysis

    // Analyst + LLM

    8h

section 03

Data Science

Model, test, and explain predictions. From ML fundamentals through deployment and LLM fine-tuning.

  1. 01

    ML Fundamentals

    // Supervised learning core

    14h
  2. 02

    Feature Engineering

    // Signal from raw data

    10h
  3. 03

    Model Building & Evaluation

    // Beyond accuracy

    12h
  4. 04

    Experimentation & A/B Testing

    // Causal by design

    12h
  5. 05

    Model Deployment

    // Models as services

    12h
  6. 06

    Deep Learning — Advanced

    // Neural networks

    18h
  7. 07

    LLM Fine-tuning & RAG

    // Adapt foundation models

    16h

section 04

AI Engineering

unlocks after Data Engineering + Data Science

Build useful AI products. LLM orchestration, RAG systems, agents, and production AI architecture.

  1. 01

    LLM APIs & Orchestration

    // OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini

    12h
  2. 02

    RAG System Design

    // Retrieval done right

    14h
  3. 03

    AI Agents & Tool Use

    // Systems that act

    14h
  4. 04

    Multimodal Systems

    // Beyond text

    12h
  5. 05

    LLMOps & Evaluation

    // Measure or guess

    12h
  6. 06

    AI Product Design

    // Architecture end-to-end

    14h

section 05

MLOps

unlocks after Data Engineering + Data Science

Ship and run models in production. Containers, CI/CD for ML, monitoring, and platform design.

  1. 01

    Docker & Containerization

    // Reproducible everything

    10h
  2. 02

    CI/CD for ML

    // Automate the path to prod

    12h
  3. 03

    Monitoring & Drift

    // Know when models rot

    12h
  4. 04

    Production ML Systems

    // Serving at scale

    14h
  5. 05

    ML Platform Design

    // End-to-end ownership

    16h