
dbt Data Build Tool Masterclass - Complete Guide to dbt
>_ What You'll Learn
- Learn DBT, a data build tool used for transforming and deploying data in data warehouses
- DBT's key features and functionalities that make it a powerful tool for data transformation and analytics
- Create a DBT project, including how to initialize the project and explore the project configuration file
- Understand the concept of DBT models and how to build a simple model with SQL
- Learn to define, structure, and organize your data transformations using DBT models
- Master the art of writing tests to ensure the quality and accuracy of your DBT models
- Explore different materialization techniques to optimize the performance and scalability of your DBT models
- Understand how to incorporate seeds and sources into your DBT projects for data ingestion and initial data setup
- Discover the powerful features and functionalities offered by DBT Cloud for seamless collaboration and deployment
- Harness the power of Jinja templating and generate automated documentation for your DBT projects
- Enhance your data loading capabilities and create custom macros to extend the functionality of DBT
- Learn how to leverage DBT snapshots to capture historical versions of your data for auditing and analysis purposes
- Dive into DBT hooks and learn how to integrate external scripts and actions into your DBT workflows
- Gain expertise in DBT analyses to perform complex data analysis and generate actionable insights using SQL within your DBT projects
>_ Requirements
- Background in data analysis or data engineering is recommended, but not required (it will just provide a strong foundation for understanding the purpose and value of DBT)
- Basic understanding of SQL is again recommended, but not required (DBT relies on SQL for data transformations and modelling)
- Understanding of Snowflake or data warehousing concepts
/ Course Details & Curriculum
- Streamline data transformation: dbt enables you to efficiently transform and analyze data in your data warehouse, saving time and effort in the data preparation process.
- Maintain data integrity: dbt (Data Build Tool) provides a structured and version-controlled approach to data transformations, ensuring consistency and reliability in your data pipelines.
- Collaborate effectively: Learning dbt allows you to work seamlessly with data teams, data analysts, and engineers, fostering collaboration and enabling efficient teamwork on data projects.
- Enable scalable analytics: With dbt, you can build scalable and modular data models that can adapt and grow as your organization's data needs evolve, enabling efficient data analysis and reporting.
- Improve data documentation: dbt Data Build Tool encourages documenting data transformations, making it easier for teams to understand and maintain data pipelines, enhancing data governance and knowledge sharing.
- Stay up-to-date with industry standards: dbt has gained significant popularity in the data engineering and analytics community, and learning dbt allows you to stay current with the latest industry practices and trends.
- Enhance career opportunities: Proficiency in dbt can open doors to various job opportunities in data engineering, data analysis, and data operations roles, as many organizations are adopting dbt as a standard data transformation tool.
- Complete guide - this is the start to finish, zero to hero, basic to advanced guide on dbt. There is no other course like it that teaches you everything from start to finish. It has 6 hours of instructional content!
- Structured to succeed - this course is structured to help you succeed. We go through all the features of dbt and learn how to use it in a practical way.
- Fully instructional - we not only go through important concepts, but also apply them as we are building our application so that we can solidify them. This is not only a walkthrough of the all the features and theoretical concepts, but a course that actually builds applications with you.
- Step by step - we go through every single concept in a sequential order (from learning about dbt Models, Materializations, and more. This improves your probabilities of learning these platforms to build solutions rather than going haphazardly through each feature.
- Learn to learn during the latter parts of the course, we go through situations where we encounter new features or errors, and work through how we would use the documentation to resolve them. In this way, you not only learn about these platforms and how they interact inside and out, but learn how to resolve your own issues as they come up.
- Teacher response if there's anything else you would like to learn, or if there's something you cannot figure out, I'm here for you! Look at the ways to reach out video.
- Reference material - follow along! I provide all reference material directly to you so you can follow along in your learning journey.
- Introduction - learn about the course, how to succeed, and the course roadmap
- dbt Account Setup - create your dbt account, set up Snowflake, and load sample data
- dbt Models - Learn to define, structure, and organize your data transformations using dbt models.
- dbt Tests - Master the art of writing tests to ensure the quality and accuracy of your dbt models.
- dbt Materializations - Explore different materialization techniques to optimize the performance and scalability of your dbt models.
- dbt Seeds and Sources - Understand how to incorporate seeds and sources into your dbt projects for data ingestion and initial data setup.
- dbt Cloud Features - Discover the powerful features and functionalities offered by dbt Cloud for seamless collaboration and deployment.
- dbt Jinja and Docs - Harness the power of Jinja templating and generate automated documentation for your dbt projects.
- dbt Load and Custom Macros - Enhance your data loading capabilities and create custom macros to extend the functionality of dbt.
- dbt Snapshots - Learn how to leverage dbt snapshots to capture historical versions of your data for auditing and analysis purposes.
- dbt Hooks - Dive into dbt hooks and learn how to integrate external scripts and actions into your dbt workflows.
- dbt Analyses - Gain expertise in dbt analyses to perform complex data analysis and generate actionable insights using SQL within your dbt projects.
- Conclusion - Wrap up the course and discuss next steps
Author and Instructor
Henry Habib, Imran Immu
Expert at Udemy
With years of hands-on experience in IT & Software, Henry Habib, Imran Immu has dedicated thousands of hours to teaching and mentorship. This course is the culmination of industry best practices and a proven curriculum that has helped thousands of students transition into professional roles.
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