Course Description
Offering a 9-week hands-on training, enabling students to implement green field implementation of DWH to perform reporting and visualization (BI) for 360-degree corporate profiling using the industry standards. Participants will master data warehousing using SQL, Power BI, and Tableau for analysis and reporting after completing all phases comprising of business analyst, data modeler, ETL developer and BI expert.
What You’ll Learn From This Course
- The fundamental concepts and principles of data warehousing, including the differences between OLTP (online transaction processing) and OLAP (online analytical processing) systems.
- The architecture of a data warehouse, including the various components and their functions, such as ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, data modeling, and data integration.
- How to design and implement a data warehouse, including identifying data sources, defining a data model, and designing the ETL process.
- How to master ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, including identifying source systems, mapping data to the data warehouse model, and implementing transformations.
- How to use BI (business intelligence) data modeling techniques to design and build a data warehouse schema, including normalization, dimensions, fact tables, and hierarchies.
- How to use Excel and Power BI to analyze and visualize data from a data warehouse, including creating pivot tables, charts, and graphs.
- How to use Power BI to create interactive dashboards and visualizations, including designing layouts, selecting appropriate visualizations, and applying filters and slicers.
- How to use data warehousing best practices, such as data quality management, data governance, and data security.
- How to manage and maintain a data warehouse, including monitoring performance, ensuring scalability, and performing backups and recovery.
Introduction to Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence
Introduction to Data Warehouse & BI
Importance of a Data Warehouse & its applications
Introduction to Data Warehouse core concepts
Transactional databases vs. Data Warehouses
Databases vs. RDBMS & its types
Business Intelligence vs. Data Science vs. Data Engineering
Normalization vs. Denormalization
Introduction to Teradata TTUs
VM & required SW Installations
Introduction to SQL – Query language for Data Warehouse
DDL vs. DML vs. DCL
Creating Databases, Tables & defining attributes
BTEQs & Table types – Set vs Multiset
Views / Materialized views
By the end of this course, the candidate should have a basic understanding of DWH Essentials & SQL
Mastering SQL & Project Kick-off
Stored Procedures & Functions
Indexing & Constraints
Aggregate functions, Window aggregate functions, Order analytical functions
SQL Ad-hoc reporting & analysis
Business Discovery for DWH – Project Kickoff
By the end of this course, the candidate should have a Mastering SQL & Project Kick-off
Data warehouse Framework & Design
Data Warehousing Structure Fundamentals
Conceptual vs Logical vs Physical Data Model
Introduction to Teradata’s HW Architecture
Indexing – Primary Index vs. Primary Key
Partitions & Data Storage – Hashing Algorithms
Data Retention & Compressions
Data Modelling & Schema design
Introduction to ETL / ELT (Extract, Load & Transform)
Star vs Snowflake vs Galaxy Constellation
Data loading into staging layer – Readiness for Functional layer
By the end of this course, the candidate should have a basic understanding of Data warehouse Framework & Design
ETL Pipeline & Data Warehouse Building Blocks
Implement data quality checks
Implementation of Normalization – 3NF
Apply transformations & develop functional layer
Hands on with physical Data Model (Foundation layer)
Hands on with Physical Data Model (Aggregate layer)
Building Reconciliation Mechanism across layers of DWH Performance Monitoring & Automation
ETL Automations using SLJM
Performance Tuning
Statistics
Data Quality & Automations
Viewpoint Query Monitoring, Health Monitoring, Workload Management, Query Spotlight
Learning importance of Explain Plan & query Performance Optimization
By the end of this course, the candidate should have a basic understanding of ETL Pipeline & Data Warehouse Building Blocks
BI Data Modelling
Business Intelligence & its importance
OLAP – Dimensional Modelling Fundamentals
Dimensional Modelling Design with industrial use case
Build & deploy Semantic layer
Design Steps – Kimball’s Dimensional Modeling (Hands on)
Implementation – Kimball’s Dimensional Modeling (Hands on)
Managing DWH history through Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCDs) with use cases
ROLAP vs MOLAP vs HOLAP
Design & implementation of Kimball’s Dimensional Model technique – Semantic layer Readiness
By the end of this course, the candidate should have a basic understanding of BI Data Modelling
Microsoft Excel
Loading, Cleaning & Preparing data
Managing the Data Model
Pivot Table for Data Analysis
Lookup Functions, Aggregate Functions & Merging techniques
Data Analysis using Charts & VisualizationsMicrosoft Power BI
Connect & Get Data from multiple Data sources
Data Connection/Storage modes – Import, Live, Direct Query & Dual
Reshaping and Transforming Data in Query Editor
Data Enrichment (New business Fields)
Data Modelling
Understanding Cardinalities
Understanding Filter Context
Building Interactive Visualizations on implemented Dimensional Model
Animated Visualization Implementation
Roll-up/Roll-Down Capabilities
Introduction to DAX Language
Custom visualization in Power BI
Creating DAX Measures
Evaluating DAX Measures
Leverage Calculate Functions functionality
Time Intelligence – MTD, QTD and YTD Date Calculations
Introduction to Power BI Services
Scheduling Automated Reports Refresh
Sharing Reports & Dashboards
Mobile Dashboard Design
Performance monitoring & debugging a slow running report – DAX Studio
Business Use Case implementation in Power BI (Assignment)
By the end of this course, the candidate should have a basic understanding of BI Reporting & Analysis
Visualization & Business Analysis
Connecting with Different Data Sources in Tableau
Data preparation with Tableau
Live Vs Extract
Data Source Filters
Basic Report Creation
Understanding of Rows and Columns
Leveraging the Use of Marks Labels to enrich information in Reports
Visualization best practices with real world examples
Grouping fields in Tableau
Interactive Filters
Types of filters
Advanced Filter Calculations
Enhancing user interactivity thorough parameters
Pages
Maps in Tableau
Importing custom geocoding in Tableau
Visualize your data on map through spatial files
Building a Dashboard
Leveraging the use of Interactivity in Dashboards through Actions
Designing and implementation of dashboard
Designing of dashboard for mobile & Tablets
Extensions
Enriching information by creating Calculated Fields
Calculation Syntax
Date/Logic/String Calculations
Advance Calculations (LODs)
LODs & real-world Use cases
Visual analytics
80-20 rule – Pareto Chart
Business Use Case implementation in Tableau (Assignment)
Career counseling & Final Assessment

ASSOCIATE PRACTICE MANAGER, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AT TERADATA

Saba Farooqi has over 13 years of extensive experience in Business Intelligence & Data warehousing solutions with focus on access layer design and foundation layout. She has managed teams and created benchmarks in semantic data modeling in telecom sector of Pakistan apart from ensuring on time delivery of programs & projects as product owner. With an emphasis on effective communication with stakeholders, she has expounded complex business objectives and product requirements to develop consensus over solutions and ensured customer satisfaction.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CONSULTANT AT TERADATA

A Computer Science graduate by qualification and a developing data enthusiast by choice, holds over 7 years of industry experience in the field of technology, data analytics, data warehousing, EL/TL, data mining, reporting & visualization. My qualifications & my actual job in the field of Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing have provided me with a well-rounded background and enabled to develop an analytical/logical approach to tasks, software skills and ability to work under pressure.



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