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🔍 Data Lineage & Governance Language

11 exercise sets. Master the vocabulary for data lineage tracking, metadata management, data catalogs, and governance communication.

Why this matters: Data engineers, analytics engineers, and data governance professionals must communicate clearly about lineage, metadata, quality, and observability. Terms like column-level lineage, data steward, federated governance, and data SLA are now everyday vocabulary in modern data teams — this course helps you use them with precision.
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Intermediate 5 exercises

Data Lineage Basics

Upstream vs. downstream datasets, lineage graphs, column-level lineage, impact analysis, and OpenLineage specification vocabulary.
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Intermediate 5 exercises

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataHub, Atlan, OpenMetadata, Alation — business glossary, data domain, data steward, certification, and data product vocabulary.
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Advanced 5 exercises

Metadata Management Vocabulary

Technical vs. business metadata, operational metadata, schema metadata, metadata-driven architecture, and data classification labels.
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Intermediate 5 exercises

Data Quality & Lineage Vocabulary

Data quality dimensions, expectations, data SLA, anomaly detection — vocabulary for communicating data quality in governance contexts.
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Advanced 5 exercises

Governance Communication Vocabulary

Data governance frameworks, governance committee, RACI for data, federated governance, data mesh governance, data policy vocabulary.
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Advanced 5 exercises

Data Observability Vocabulary

Data downtime, freshness, volume, distribution, schema change detection, data incident — vocabulary for data health and observability tools.
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Intermediate 5 exercises

Impact Analysis Vocabulary

Downstream dependencies, breaking change propagation, "this schema change will affect N pipelines" — vocabulary for communicating impact before making changes.
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Intermediate 5 exercises

Data Catalog Navigation Vocabulary

Finding datasets, reading catalog entries, data owner, last updated, quality score, certified status — vocabulary for navigating modern data catalogs.
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Advanced 5 exercises

Data Stewardship Communication

Who is the data owner, stewardship workflow vocabulary, requesting access, data classification — language for data governance communication.
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Advanced 5 exercises

GDPR Right-to-Erasure via Lineage

Delete all records for user X, propagate deletion downstream, compliance documentation language — GDPR erasure workflows using data lineage.
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Advanced 5 exercises

Data Lineage Review Vocabulary

The lineage graph shows, column-level lineage confirms, trust score, presenting lineage findings — vocabulary for lineage reviews and incident reports.