Module 1: Databricks from Scratch

This module is for pricing analysts who have never used Databricks. If you have opened it before, skimmed the documentation and come away confused, or been told "we're moving to Databricks" with no further instruction, this is the right starting point.

We assume you know Excel and probably some R or Python. We assume you use Emblem or Radar. We do not assume you know anything about cloud computing, distributed systems, or data engineering.

By the end of this module you will have a working Databricks environment, a first notebook, and a real dataset loaded and ready to query. Everything else in the course builds on this foundation.

What is in this module

1. What is Databricks — and why pricing teams are adopting it
2. Setting up your Free Edition account
3. Your first notebook
4. Working with data in Databricks
5. Organising your work (notebooks, repos, Git)
6. Compute basics
7. Unity Catalog — a preview of the governance layer

Download the notebook for this module

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