A Picture of Your Data: Understanding Data Modeling

A data model is the ultimate communication tool: it lets business leaders, data professionals, and IT teams speak the same language about what data means and how it should behave. The Data Literacy Guide to Data Modeling breaks down the five components every model is built from and the four levels, from enterprise down to physical, that each serve a different audience and purpose. By the end, you'll be able to read and engage with a data model, and recognize it as the place where costly misalignments get caught before they become expensive problems.

Purpose

To build a working understanding of data modeling as a shared communication tool between business and IT, not a purely technical exercise.

Outcome

• Understand what a data model is, and why its real value is alignment, not diagrams
• Learn the five components every data model shares: entities, relationships, attributes, domain, and identifiers
• Recognize the four modeling levels and who each one is built for

This Course Includes

• An interactive, self-paced e-learning module (5–10 minutes)
• Real-world scenarios and hands-on interactions: accordions, flashcards, and stepped processes built around the topic
• A quick knowledge check to reinforce what you've learned

Access

This course is included in the full Data Literacy Guide (DLG) collection: one purchase gets you all available DLG courses, including any new releases, for a full year, only $99.