Overview

Welcome to extra credit, ambitious student!

By this point, you have two working data pipelines: one you built progressively throughout this course’s lessons, and the other during the course capstone. Building a data pipeline from end-to-end is a useful skill, but there’s still another skill you can learn to level up. Using metadata, or data that provides information about other data, you can document your pipeline and make it easy for others to understand.

In this lesson, we’ll cover:

• What’s metadata and the benefits of using it
• Definition metadata
• Materialization metadata
• How to locate metadata in the UI