Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • How to use this course

    • Before we begin...
  • 2

    Data and Data Quality

    • Rules, Data Quality & Integration - Fun Case Study (6 min)

    • The Missing Dimension of Data Quality Initiatives (3 min)

    • Data Quality & Data Modeling – Phantoms in Your Data (13 min)

    • How to Fix Data Quality – Practitioners View (10 min)

    • Your Role in Building a Data-Driven Organization – Part 1: Skills, Tools & Techniques (40 min)

    • Your Role in Building a Data-Driven Organization – Part 2: Opportunities at Different Levels of Maturity (11 min)

    • Your Role in Building a Data-Driven Organization – Part 3: Critical Success Factors (8 min)

    • Survey: Data and Data Quality
  • 3

    Concept Model 1: What Concept Models are About

    • Introduction to Concept Models (28 min)

    • What Challenges Concept Models Address (15 min)

    • Classification, Terms & Definitions – Putting Things in the Right Conceptual Buckets (7 min)

    • Survey: Concept Model 1
  • 4

    Concept Model 2: Terms and Definitions

    • What Makes a Good Term (4 min)

    • How to Create a Good Business Definition (41 min)

    • Survey: Concept Model 2
  • 5

    Concept Model 3: Structure

    • Categorization Structures – Doing Battle with Type Codes (17 min)

    • Verb Concepts for Relating Things – Fighting Ambiguity (23 min)

    • Handling States in Concept Models – Vocabulary for Business Milestones (6 min)

    • Generalizing Structure – Best Practices (11 min)

    • Survey: Concept Model 3
  • 6

    Next steps

    • Congrats! Here's what's next...

    • Before you go...