Understanding Your Company's Data Model

Summary

Knowing where key entities (users, orders, sessions) live, how they connect, and which tables are trustworthy versus stale or deprecated — the unglamorous knowledge that makes you fast at a real job.

How to Learn This

1If you have access to a real or sample company schema, spend an hour just exploring it.
2Identify the 3-5 'core' tables you'd expect to use in most analyses.
3Learn to ask a data engineer about table freshness and reliability before trusting a new source.

Prioritizing Ad-Hoc Requests

Domain-Specific Analytics (Marketing, Product, Finance, Ops)

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