Module 8 Overview

Theme

AI data platform readiness review

Essential Question

What proves a data system can support production AI?

Module Components

• Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

• Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

• Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

• Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

• Instructor notes: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues

• Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

• Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic pipeline events with freshness, schema drift, lineage completeness, volume, and access-risk indicators

Module Artifact

AI data platform design review with lineage, quality checks, cost controls, and access model focused on ai data platform readiness review: Deliver an architecture review and operational checklist.

Professional Setting

Students work as if advising a platform team designing data infrastructure for repeatable model training and monitoring. Their work must be intelligible to data engineer, ML engineer, security architect, data steward, and platform owner.