Aaron

“The beauty of Dataquest is that it starts at the most basic level, so a true beginner can understand the concepts”

Aaron Melton

Business Analyst @Aditi Consulting

Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn how to build a simple data pipeline using imperative and functional paradigms. You’ll also learn how to use functional closures in Python, how to implement a well-designed pipeline API, how to write decorators, and how to apply them to functions.
At the end of the course, you’ll work on a real-world project, using a data pipeline to summarize Hacker News data. This project is a chance for you to combine the skills you learned in this course and build a real-world data pipeline from raw data to summarization.

Key skills

  • Writing a robust pipeline with a scheduler in Python
  • Using advanced Python concepts like closures, decorators, and more

Course outline

Building a Data Pipeline [5 lessons]

Functional Programming 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Identify the differences between imperative and functional programming
  • Write code in Python in a functional style using map, reduce, and filter

Pipeline Tasks 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Build task functions in a pipeline
  • Write functions using the functional paradigm

Building a Pipeline Class 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Implement functional closures in Python
  • Apply decorators to functions
  • Implement a pipeline API

Multiple Dependency Pipeline 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define graph theory
  • Implement a directed acyclic graph in Python
  • Write a scheduler for the pipeline class

Guided Project: Hacker News Pipeline 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Process JSON API data in Python.
  • Expand your portfolio by building a data pipeline

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Hacker News Pipeline

Learn how to use a data pipeline to summarize hacker news data.

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Aaron

Aaron Melton

Business Analyst at Aditi Consulting

“Dataquest starts at the most basic level, so a beginner can understand the concepts. I tried learning to code before, using Codecademy and Coursera. I struggled because I had no background in coding, and I was spending a lot of time Googling. Dataquest helped me actually learn.”

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Jessica Ko

Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter

“I liked the interactive environment on Dataquest. The material was clear and well organized. I spent more time practicing then watching videos and it made me want to keep learning.”

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