The exponential growth in data, more powerful algorithms and the scalability of cloud architectures enable the world's most successful companies and create new data forward opportunities for every organization. In this class we'll develop strong intuition of the principles driving the modern data ecosystem (database, data transformation, governance, discovery). We'll explore new cloud architectures for data intensive applications and how they impact companies' abilities to deliver. We'll build technical capabilities to develop insights from data and ensure data quality with a robust process for EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis). We'll deliver on data transformation pipelines and creation of new features through understanding of latent features. Students will develop an understanding of data intensive systems and analytic processes to enable them to plan, manage and lead effective teams in product & management roles.