Workshops for teams working with data and AI
Work through the data challenges your team is facing. My workshops connect data engineering, modeling, and AI fundamentals to practical decisions about architecture, meaning, and how systems get built.
For engineers, architects, and data leaders who want to explore modeling approaches, examine architecture tradeoffs, and connect technical choices to what the business needs.
Discuss a workshop →What we can work through
Modern data modeling with Mixed Model Arts
Work across relational, analytics, application, ML/AI, and knowledge approaches. Examine entities, identifiers, relationships, grain, time, and context before choosing a modeling technique.
Data engineering and architecture
Connect the stages of the data engineering lifecycle. Examine how requirements, ownership, security, governance, and operational constraints shape architecture decisions.
Data for AI systems
Explore what changes when machines interpret your data. Work through definitions, relationships, and assumptions that affect how AI systems use information.
Learning goals
Depending on the focus of your session, learning goals can include:
- Describe what your data represents, including its grain, relationships, and time assumptions.
- Compare modeling approaches against the use case and explain the tradeoffs.
- Connect architecture choices to stakeholder needs and operational constraints.
- Identify gaps in meaning and context before using data in AI systems.
Grounded in your team's context
Start with the decisions your team needs to make. Share the people involved, the data challenges you face, and what a useful outcome would look like. We can use that context to discuss the focus and scope of a session.
My books, Mixed Model Arts and Fundamentals of Data Engineering with Matt Housley, offer a view into the concepts behind this work.
Discuss a workshop
Tell me about your team's roles and experience, the problem you want to work through, your goals, and your preferred dates, location, and format.
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