Ed-Fi 141 - Data Engineering Lifecycle

Ed-Fi 141 - Data Engineering Lifecycle

Course Information

Course Overview

Description

This course focuses on the data engineering lifecycle. This includes following data through its many stages:

  • Generation of data in a source system

  • Vendor-owned push of data from the source system to the Ed-Fi API

  • Extract and load of Ed-Fi API and non Ed-Fi data sources into a data lake (storage layer)

  • Transformation of raw data into facts and dims using dimensional modeling (star schema) as a design process for analytics

  • Creation of data products from the analytics layer

  • DataOps and the cloud as a way to focus more on data and less on infrastructure

Who Should Enroll

  • Students who are enrolled in the Analytics Engineering Pathway

  • College students or non-K12 data people who desire to develop K12-specific engineering expertise

Course Outcome

By the end of this course, Academy students will be able to: 

  • Apply the lifecycle in their own work to be able to visualize how data moves from source system to data product.

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this course are: 

  • Understand the data engineering lifecycle

  • Understand the core tools and technologies used in the lifecycle, including Ed-Fi technology

Course Sections

  • Introduction

  • Lifecycle

  • Wrap up