🖥️ Week 03, Day 04 - Lecture
Demos and Recipes: Data Governance, Good Documentation, and Agentic Coding
By the end of today’s lecture, you should be able to: i) Say what makes a set of steps a data pipeline, and name the bronze, silver, and gold layers in your own project, ii) Read a diagram of a company’s pipeline and recognise the steps you have run by hand this week, iii) Describe two tasks an agentic coding tool is good for, and one way it can be confidently wrong, iv) Set up an agent in a project of your own, with an instruction file that tells it which tools to use.
⏰ Thursday, 30 July 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm 📍 CBG.2.01 (see LSE’s 🗺️ campus map)
Today is our last lecture. After the first hour helping you with your projects, we will talk about how companies build data pipelines and how I use agentic coding tools on my own work. Jonas will join us for the last hour to share how he sets these tools up on a project.
🗣️ Lecture Overview
- Final project support: work on your project with help from me and your class teacher
- Coffee break
- Professional data pipelines: what makes a set of steps a pipeline, the bronze, silver, and gold layers mapped onto your own three notebooks, and two diagrams from LinkedIn’s engineering blog read against the week you have just had
- How I use agentic tools: searching four years of my own course material, and putting a slide together, with the mistakes that came out of both
- Setting up agentic coding: with Jonas (init and instruction files, plan mode, loops and agent teams)
- Wrap-up: where you want to be by tonight, and the final project deadline
🎬 Lecture Slides
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After the Lecture
This afternoon is the last support session before you submit. Jonas will be exclusively dedicated to give you support for your final project, due Friday, 31 July at 5 pm UK time, submitted through the Nuvolos assignment hand-in from /files/assignments/final-project/.
💻 This Afternoon
⏳ Deadline
Questions?