In this introduction to data lakes session I describe what a data lake is and how you can use this modern data platform in your business to achieve more in an efficient way.

In part one of the Data Lake in a Day series I showed you how to set up the infrastructure for the whole workshop with a simple one click deployment using an ARM template. If you've not already done so, go and run through that video at    • Data Lake in a Day 1 - Setting up the...  .
In part two of the series I took you through Lab 1, this lab showed you how easy it is to ingest data from a database into the data lake. See that video at    • Data Lake in a Day 2 - Lab 1 Data Ingest  

0:00 - Introduction to the session
1:15 - What is a data lake?
5:24 - Comparing manual process to data platforms
8:19 - The four levels of analytics
10:49 - Analytics journey to automation
12:19 - Sources of data to the lake and uses of data from the lake
16:36 - Wrap up

You can find the whole one day workshop at https://github.com/davedoesdemos/Data... including all lab materials, data and instructions.

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