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Enterprise Data Foundations for AI

Data quality, lineage, governance, privacy, and the platform pattern that makes AI possible — not the platform that promises it.

8 chapters·Director · Technical practitioner·Free

Last updated: 2026-05-22

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What you'll learn

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

  • The data-quality reality most AI vendors won't tell you about
  • The lineage + governance pattern auditors and regulators actually accept
  • The platform discipline — pick the pattern that makes AI possible, not the platform that promises it
  • The 4 production-readiness checks for AI data pipelines
  • The hard line between data engineering and ML engineering — and the handoff that works

Who this is for

Chief Data Officers, data platform leads, data engineering managers, and CIOs accountable for the data foundation AI initiatives depend on. Especially useful for orgs whose AI proofs-of-concept ship but never scale because the data underneath isn't production-grade.

Curriculum

8 chapters · 1 hands-on exercises · capstone challenge

Each chapter ends with the learning objectives ticked off. Quizzes are auto-graded with feedback; exercises are open-ended and produce artifacts you can take to your team.

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1. Data foundations landscape

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    2. Data quality reality

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      3. Lineage + provenance

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        4. Governance + privacy

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          5. Platform pattern

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            6. Storage + retrieval architecture

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              7. Operations + monitoring

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                8. Roadmap + handoff to AI teams

                  Interactive Course · Free

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                  All 8 chapters live with interactive slides, audio narration, mock-exam practice, and cross-device progress tracking. The first two chapters are accessible without an account.

                  References & sources

                  Built on cited sources — not vibes.

                  Every course is researched fresh against vendor documentation, regulatory sources, and peer-reviewed work. Sources used in this course:

                  Course details

                  Track

                  Builder

                  Level

                  Intermediate

                  Audience

                  Director, Technical practitioner

                  Function

                  IT & Engineering

                  Industry

                  Cross-Industry

                  Stack

                  Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, Stack-agnostic

                  Paired Gennoor Way phase

                  diagnose, build

                  Format

                  interactive, reading