Data Quality Fundamentals
Data quality is a large and complex field with many dimensions. This 4.5-hour course provides an overview of the field of data quality with the goal of building strong foundational knowledge, including terminology, concepts, principles, processes, and practices.
Instructor: David Wells
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Data Governance Fundamentals
This 5-hour course provides and overview of the disciplines of governing data, covers the essential components of an enterprise-wide program, and outlines a roadmap to execute a successful data governance program. An extensive case study illustrates data governance concepts, principles, and practices.
Instructors: Maria Villar, Theresa Kushner, Dave Wells
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Data Integration Fundamentals and Best Practices
This 5-hour course discusses architectures, requirements, methods, roles and activities of data integration that can be applied to achieve successful data integration projects for a variety of applications and circumstances.
Instructor: Dave Wells
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Information Management Fundamentals
Information Management is a broad and diverse field that encompasses 14 distinct disciplines. Even seasoned IM professionals don’t typically have knowledge of and experience in all of the disciplines. This 5.5-hour course provides a high-level view across the entire scope of information management.
Instructor: David Wells
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Metadata Management Fundamentals
This 4-hour course is designed
to provide the foundational metadata knowledge needed by anyone who has
data management roles and responsibilities. It covers metadata basics such as the
types and purposes of metadata, and explores core metadata disciplines
of data modeling, data profiling, and data cataloging.
Instructors: David Wells and Arkady Maydanchik
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Fundamentals of Business Intelligence
In this 5.5-hour course you will learn basic terminology, concepts, purpose and capabilities of BI, get introduced to the common challenges and risks encountered in BI implementations, and understand the role of people, information, technology and business objectives in BI success.
Instructor: Mark Peco
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Big Data Fundamentals
This 3.5-hour online course addresses the technical community as well as
the user community, providing guidance on how to penetrate and benefit
the enterprise. This practical session will help you make the most of
big data and make the best choices to ensure information remains an
unparalleled corporate asset.
Instructors: William McKnight and Jake Dolezal
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Data Warehousing Fundamentals
This 4.5-hour This course re-defines the scope of the “modern” data warehouse. The need for planning and the role of architecture are described and clarified, followed by a discussion about the challenges related to gathering useful information requirements. This is followed by a discussion of design approaches, development, testing and quality management techniques.
Instructor: Mark Peco
Introduction to NOSQL
This 3.5-hour online course addresses the emerging class of NoSQL
technologies for managing operational big data. This includes key-value,
column stores, document stores and graph databases. Learn about the
ideal workloads for NoSQL in enterprises and where NoSQL adds value to
an enterprise information strategy. Learn how to get the projects
started or dropping the “not in production” label.
Instructors: William McKnight
Analytics Fundamentals
This 6-hour online course provides a foundation to understand the scope and the key success factors of analytics. Concepts and terminology are introduced, and scope of analytics is
discussed to set context and provide a frame of reference for topics
that follow.
Instructor: Mark Peco and Dave Wells
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Hadoop Fundamentals
This 5-hour online course provides an introduction to Hadoop and its inner workings and how the ecosystem was created to answer several questions for a world driven by data and e-commerce.
Instructor: Krish Krishnan
Data Understanding and Preparation for Data Science
This 3-hour online course addresses how to translate the problem statement into data sources, explore the data for relationships and recognize patterns, identify the starting inputs for the model, preparing data, and validating it for the model fitting process.
Instructor: Deanne Larson
Curating and Cataloging Data
This 3-hour online training course will explore how curating and cataloging work together to meet the data needs of business and data analysts, to provide self-service data to complement self-service analytics, and to realize the promise of democratizing data analytics.
Instructor: Dave Wells
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Modernizing Data Governance
This 3-hour online training explores how governance fits within modern data ecosystems, from point of ingestion to reporting and analysis.
Instructor: Dave Wells
Data Strategy for the Age of Big Data
This 3-hour course covers the core principles of building a big data strategy to generate the business value and deep insights that an organization needs to thrive in a competitive business environment.
Instructor: Asha Saxena
Best Practices in Data Resource Management
The data is one of the four critical resources in an organization, along with the financial resource, real property, and the human resource. This 3-hour course provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of data disparity on the organization, and outlines best practices for data resource management.
Instructor: Mike Brackett
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Ensuring Data Quality in Data Integration
Data errors multiply and spread like viruses through data consolidation processes and ongoing data interfaces. This 5-hour course discusses various practices that can be put in place to maintain high data quality through data integration.
Instructor: Arkady Maydanchik
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Data Quality Assessment
This 5-hour course gives comprehensive treatment to the process and practical challenges of data quality assessment. It starts with systematic treatment of various data quality rules and proceeds to the results analysis and building aggregated data quality scorecard.
Instructor: Arkady Maydanchik
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Data Profiling
Data profiling is the process of analyzing actual data and understanding its true structure and meaning. It is one of the most common and important activities in information management. This 5-hour course teaches all practical skills necessary to succeed in a data profiling initiative.
Instructor: Arkady Maydanchik
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Conceptual Data Modeling
In this 3.5-hour course you will learn the secrets of successful conceptual data modeling through an effective mix of presentation and exercises. You will gain valuable insights into the job and responsibilities of the data modeler as well as the responsibilities of other data modeling contributors.
Instructor: David Haertzen
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DW and BI Data Modeling
This 4-hour course includes a mix of data modeling concepts, best practices, applications and practical examples that will help you build effective data warehouse and business intelligence applications.
Instructor: Rick Sherman
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Logical Data Modeling
This 4.5-hour course covers the concepts, notation, and steps needed to create and extend logical data models. The course goes beyond fundamentals, and describes numerous data modeling situations and patterns. Many exercises are included to enhance learning.
Instructor: David Haertzen
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Data Governance for Business Leaders
Most of the burden for data governance success falls on business users of information. This 3-hour course covers basic data governance concepts that business participants need to understand and describes the steps that they can take to make governance a successful business initiative.
Instructor: John Ladley
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