- Shell Script
- Bash (Unix Shell)
- Linux
- Cloud Databases
- Python Programming
- Jupyter notebooks
- Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
- SQL
- Extraction, Transformation And Loading (ETL)
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Airflow
- Data Pipelines
BI Foundations with SQL, ETL and Data Warehousing Specialization
Springboard for BI Analytics success. Develop hands-on skills for building data pipelines, warehouses, reports and dashboards.
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What you will learn
Write SQL queries to work with relational databases including CREATE TABLE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ORDER, JOIN, Functions, etc.
Execute commonly used Linux commands; Automate Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines using BASH scripts, Apache Airflow & Kafka
Design Data Warehouses using star and snowflake schemas, loading and verify data in staging areas, build cubes, rollups and materialized views/tables
Analyze data in warehouses using interactive reports and dashboards using BI tools such as Cognos Analytics
Skills you will gain
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Applied Learning Project
Each course provides lots of practice using hands-on labs and projects on cloud-based environments with real tools. Hands-on exercises include: running Linux commands and pipes, in creating shell scripts, scheduling jobs using cron, building ETL and data pipelines, creating & monitoring Airflow DAGs, working with streaming data using Kafka, designing a data warehouses with star and snowflake schemas, verifying data quality, loading staging and production warehouses, writing SQL queries and joins with PostgreSQL, MySQL & DB2 databases, developing cubes, rollups and materialized views/tables, creating interactive reports & dashboards, and analyzing warehouse data using BI tools like Cognos Analytics.
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