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21 modules / 236 lessons

Study the course in the correct order.

This page helps you choose the next step without getting lost in the catalog. Start with the recommended order, then pick a track when you know which direction you want to specialize in.

Recommended order

From solid foundations to advanced systems.

If you want a linear path, follow these phases from top to bottom. Each row is a module: open it, complete the main lessons, and move to the next phase.

Phase 1

Foundation

Method, tracking, metrics, and decision operating system before entering specializations.

  1. Module 1

    Course Overview and Study Method for Data Work

    Transform the course from catalog to cognitive system, with study method, technical memory, and professional output plan.

    8 lessons
  2. Module 2

    Data Collection & Tracking Systems

    Move from isolated tags and tools to reliable, governed, and observable measurement systems.

    8 lessons
  3. Module 3

    Metrics, KPI Trees, and Analytical Foundations

    Learn to read numbers as systems, with KPI trees, unit economics, correct baselines, and causal signal interpretation.

    6 lessons
  4. Module 4

    Data-Driven Management and Decision Operating System

    Bring data into the everyday way of deciding with cadence, governance, decision memo, and cross-functional alignment.

    9 lessons
Phase 2

Business Application

Product, marketing, dashboards, and decision models applied to real growth problems.

  1. Module 5

    Product Analytics and Growth Diagnostics

    Read where the product creates value, friction, or loss with funnel, retention, activation, and monetization analytics.

    11 lessons
  2. Module 6

    Marketing Analytics, Incrementality, and Unit Economics

    Take marketing from reporting to a serious quantitative discipline with incrementality, unit economics, and decision reviews.

    22 lessons
  3. Module 7

    Dashboard, Visualization, and Decision Interface

    Build dashboards that drive decisions, with visual hierarchy, semantic consistency, alerting, and operational context.

    8 lessons
  4. Module 8

    Marketing Data Science, Forecasting, and Decision Models

    Introduces business-useful models, distinguishing prediction, causation, scenario planning, and model risk.

    19 lessons
Phase 3

Infrastructure and Stack

Warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, realtime, and operational discipline for reliable analytical systems.

  1. Module 9

    Data Warehousing & Analytical Architecture

    Truly understand how to design a scalable analytical system with correct grain, historization, and architectural trade-offs.

    7 lessons
  2. Module 10

    S3, Data Lake, and Lakehouse Architecture

    Move from buckets with files to a readable, governed data lake compatible with modern lakehouse patterns.

    12 lessons
  3. Module 11

    Kafka & Event Streaming Engineering

    Teach data logic as a flow, with schema contracts, stream processing, and realistic failure handling.

    9 lessons
  4. Module 12

    Real-Time Analytics & ClickHouse Systems

    Turn realtime from slogan to robust system with ingestion patterns, MergeTree thinking, and cost control.

    9 lessons
  5. Module 13

    Infrastructure & Ops for Data Systems

    Bring operational discipline from serious engineering to data workloads, deploy, observability, security, and incident response.

    7 lessons
Phase 4

Quantitative Rigor

Advanced SQL, mathematics, analytics engineering, and experiment science to raise the course level.

  1. Module 14

    Advanced SQL for Analytical Systems

    Use SQL as a reasoning language, not just extraction, with patterns for cohorts, funnels, experiments, and performance.

    14 lessons
  2. Module 15

    Mathematics for Data Analysis

    Introduces the mathematical rigor that makes models, inference, forecasting, and applied regressions more readable.

    10 lessons
  3. Module 16

    Analytics Engineering with dbt and Semantic Layer

    Transform raw data into reliable, reusable, and governed models with layering, tests, contracts, and semantic layer.

    13 lessons
  4. Module 17

    Statistical Significance, A/B Testing, and Experimentation Science

    Take experimentation to a serious level with causal design, power planning, variance reduction, and governance.

    10 lessons
Phase 5

Direction and Depth

Roles, economic responsibilities, causality, applied AI, and critical data reading in complex decision-making contexts.

  1. Module 18

    Directions in Analytics: Marketing, Product, Finance

    Connect technical modules to real roles, economic responsibilities, and professional specialization choices.

    14 lessons
  2. Module 19

    Philosophical Foundations of Data Analysis

    Give epistemological, causal, and critical depth to data work, linking evidence, models, risk, and responsibility.

    20 lessons
  3. Module 20

    AI for Data Analysis, Data Engineering and AutoML

    Use generative AI and AutoML to accelerate analysis, pipelines, features, and decision memos without losing control, quality, and ownership.

    10 lessons
  4. Module 21

    Agentic AI for Data Analysis, Data Engineering, and AutoML

    Design agentic workflows for analysis, SQL, pipelines, AutoML, and analytics operations with tools, state, guardrails, evaluation, and approval.

    10 lessons

Specialized tracks

Choose a direction once you have the basics.

Tracks do not replace the recommended order: they help filter the path when you want to reach a role or a type of project.

Track

Growth & Marketing Measurement

Final track for those who want to govern measurement architecture, incrementality, budget allocation, and growth-oriented decisions.

  • Design credible marketing measurement systems.
  • Read unit economics, attribution, and incrementality rigorously.
6 modules73 lessons
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Track

Product & Experimentation

Final track for those who want to work on product analytics, retention, experimentation science, and applied causality.

  • Diagnose activation, retention, and churn systematically.
  • Design experiments and read causal effects with greater reliability.
7 modules74 lessons
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Track

Data Platform & Analytics Engineering

Final track for those who want to design the end-to-end analytics stack, from tracking to warehouse to serving layer.

  • Design scalable analytic architectures with contracts, QA, and observability.
  • Build reusable data models with dbt and semantic layer.
10 modules99 lessons
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Final capstone

Build a complete Marketing Data & Analytics Engineering system

The capstone is the final project: it combines tracking, KPIs, data architecture, dashboards, experiments, and business recommendations into a single presentable case.

  • Tracking plan.
  • Metric model.
  • Warehouse or lakehouse design.
  • Analytics engineering transformations.

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milestone

8

deliverable

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