Note: NYC TLC changed the format of the data we use to parquet. But you can still access the csv files here.
- Course overview
- Introduction to GCP
- Docker and docker-compose
- Running Postgres locally with Docker
- Setting up infrastructure on GCP with Terraform
- Preparing the environment for the course
- Homework
- Data Lake
- Workflow orchestration
- Introduction to Prefect
- ETL with GCP & Prefect
- Parametrizing workflows
- Prefect Cloud and additional resources
- Homework
- Data Warehouse
- BigQuery
- Partitioning and clustering
- BigQuery best practices
- Internals of BigQuery
- Integrating BigQuery with Airflow
- BigQuery Machine Learning
- Basics of analytics engineering
- dbt (data build tool)
- BigQuery and dbt
- Postgres and dbt
- dbt models
- Testing and documenting
- Deployment to the cloud and locally
- Visualizing the data with google data studio and metabase
- Batch processing
- What is Spark
- Spark Dataframes
- Spark SQL
- Internals: GroupBy and joins
- Introduction to Kafka
- Schemas (avro)
- Kafka Streams
- Kafka Connect and KSQL
Putting everything we learned to practice
- Week 7 and 8: working on your project
- Week 9: reviewing your peers
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Cloud-based auto-scaling platform by Google
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS): Data Lake
- BigQuery: Data Warehouse
- Terraform: Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- Docker: Containerization
- SQL: Data Analysis & Exploration
- Prefect: Workflow Orchestration
- dbt: Data Transformation
- Spark: Distributed Processing
- Kafka: Streaming
To get the most out of this course, you should feel comfortable with coding and command line and know the basics of SQL. Prior experience with Python will be helpful, but you can pick Python relatively fast if you have experience with other programming languages.
Prior experience with data engineering is not required.
- Ankush Khanna (https://linkedin.com/in/ankushkhanna2)
- Sejal Vaidya (https://linkedin.com/in/vaidyasejal)
- Victoria Perez Mola (https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaperezmola/)
- Kalise Richmond (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaliserichmond/)
- Jeff Hale (https://www.linkedin.com/in/-jeffhale/)
- Alexey Grigorev (https://linkedin.com/in/agrigorev)
For this course, you'll need to have the following software installed on your computer:
- Docker and Docker-Compose
- Python 3 (e.g. via Anaconda)
- Google Cloud SDK
- Terraform
See Week 1 for more details about installing these tools
Thanks to the course sponsors for making it possible to create this course
Do you want to support our course and our community? Please reach out to [email protected]