Building AI Data Pipelines
The data analyst's build course: stand up a real analytics pipeline over Postgres — land raw, type and derive, gate quality, publish marts — then keep it honest with drift detection (PSI vs a saved baseline), freshness SLAs, and a recall-first monitor. Learn to use AI at the keyboard to draft transforms, tests, and drift explanations. The whole pipeline runs deterministically with no API key; your job is to notice when a number is lying.
"The pipeline runs green and the counts look fine — and the data underneath still moved. Catch it."
8 Interactive Sessions
Short, interactive sessions — watch it work, steer it, then build it yourself. Go deeper anytime with the full code walkthrough.
- 1
The pipeline runs green — and the data still lied
See why a data analyst's real job is noticing when a number is lying, and why that starts with landing the source faithfully.
- 2
Trust starts at typing
Turn the faithful-but-useless raw copy into a typed, trustworthy staging table — and see why idempotency is what makes a re-run safe.
- 3
Catch the bad row — don't drop it, don't ship it
Test staging with predicates that should return zero rows, and quarantine the ones that fail — held for review, not deleted and not passed through.
- 4
The table the business trusts
Publish the daily metrics mart from clean staging only — and see, in a single number, the quality gate protecting a headline metric.
- 5
The failure no row count can see
Detect a distribution that shifted while every count stayed fine — using PSI against a saved baseline, with a stable control proving the detector isn't crying wolf.
- 6
The pipeline that runs perfectly on yesterday's data
Catch silent staleness — a pipeline that runs green while reading data that stopped arriving — with a freshness SLA, and emit a run manifest for lineage.
- 7
The model drafts; you own the merge
Use a model to draft the repetitive 80% of pipeline work — transforms, tests, explanations — while keeping human judgement as the gate on every line that ships.
- 8
Which signal wakes a human at 3am?
Turn the pipeline's checks into a paging policy people trust — page only for the failures that hurt if missed, WARN for the rest, and close the loop back to the baseline.
Production patterns you'll master
Synthetic data included
- Support-ticket dataset (CSV)
- Agent roster
- Saved drift baseline
- Pipeline config (SLAs, thresholds)
- Quarantine + run manifest
What you walk away with
Shareable portfolio
A public URL showing your module timeline, patterns mastered, and completion status.
All the code
Download everything as a ZIP — pipelines, guardrails, deployment configs. Yours forever.
Module walkthrough
Each module documented with deliverables and the production pattern you implemented.
Ready to build your building ai data pipelines?
First course free. $20 per course after that.