This workshop will cover new analyst focused user interfaces in dbt. Understand how to develop in dbt Canvas, how to explore within the Insights query page, and how to navigate across your data control plane in the dbt Catalog. What to bring: You will need to bring your own laptop to complete the hands-on exercises. We will provide all the other sandbox environments for dbt and a data platform.
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Faith McKenna
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Faith is a data goblin whose main daily pursuits involve writing and teaching. She works with data teams all over the place to help them uplevel their analytics practice by implementing dbt. Coalesce is her favorite time of year--there's nothing better than congregating with other data pros and hearing how their data world is.
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Jerrie and Faith have developed a framework for thoughtful, effective data testing and QA. In this peer exchange, attendees will battle-test the framework by sharing where it fits across industries. Attendees will walk away with their own testing framework to try in their day jobs.
dbt Canvas makes it simple for every data practitioner to contribute to a dbt project. Learn the foundational concepts of developing in Canvas, dbt's new visual editor, and the best practices of editing and creating dbt models. After this course, you will be able to: Create new dbt models and edit existing models in dbt Canvas Understand the different operators in Canvas Evaluate the underlying SQL produced by Canvas Prerequisites for this course include: Basic SQL understanding What to bring: You will need to bring your own laptop to complete the hands-on exercises. We will provide all the other sandbox environments for dbt and data platform. Duration: 2 hours Fee: $200 Trainings and certifications are not offered separately and must be purchased with a Coalesce pass Trainings and certifications are not available for Coalesce Online passes
Let’s kick off Coalesce 2025 with a bang! At our opening keynote, you’ll hear how dbt is redefining data work in the age of AI. You’ll hear from dbt Labs CEO and Founder Tristan Handy for his perspective on how AI is rapidly pushing our industry forward and how the dbt Fusion engine is redefining the dbt standard. Tristan will also be joined by Fivetran CEO George Fraser as they discuss their shared vision of an open data infrastructure. dbt Labs product and technical leaders will also share the latest innovations in dbt including: how Fusion is making the development experience more efficient and intelligent than ever before, and our progress on embedded cost optimization and AI experiences designed to help our users expedite workflows while keeping costs and data quality in check. Throughout, dbt customers and partners will connect the dots between dbt’s vision and product roadmap with real-world customer outcomes. Get a front-row seat to the action. For our Coalesce Online attendees, join us on Slack in #coalesce-2025 to stay connected during keynote!
dbt Canvas makes it simple for every data practitioner to contribute to a dbt project. Learn the foundational concepts of developing in Canvas, dbt's new visual editor, and the best practices of editing and creating dbt models. After this course, you will be able to: Create new dbt models and edit existing models in dbt Canvas Understand the different operators in Canvas Evaluate the underlying SQL produced by Canvas Prerequisites for this course include: Basic SQL understanding What to bring: You will need to bring your own laptop to complete the hands-on exercises. We will provide all the other sandbox environments for dbt and data platform. Duration: 2 hours Fee: $200 Trainings and certifications are not offered separately and must be purchased with a Coalesce pass Trainings and certifications are not available for Coalesce Online passes