Anatella IRL training sessions

For all on-site/IRL training sessions located in the student’s company offices, the students must provide a training room (with a beamer if possible).

There are 2 different levels for this training:

1. For simple users

This training is open to any profile: Business, IT, business analysts, data scientists.
Duration: from ½ to 1 day.

Anatella is a data management tool created to automate the most complex data-related tasks. Anatella handles with ease the most complex processes because it’s initially designed to do feature engineering for machine learning purposes (i.e. very complex data flows). Anatella integrates many different “standard” data-transformations (to union, join, filter tables) that anybody can use just with the mouse. The full list of available operators is given in section 5 of the Anatella Quick User’s guide (available on-line here).

Anatella is quite straight-forward to use. Most users that are already familiar with other ETL/Data Preparation tools understand it directly. For the other users, half a day of training is usually more than enough to cover the essentials and a full day might be necessary to explore some of the “most advanced” data operators (such as the pivot boxes, the GIS boxes, the NLP boxes, the data-cleaning boxes, etc.).

Session schedule:
Usually, the students start by watching the 8 Youtube video “Basic tutorials” about Anatella a few days before joining the IRL training session (see here for the English version and here for the French version of these 8 youtube tutorials). We start the IRL training session by doing a very quick recap of these 8 youtube videos. Just afterwards, we do some little “hands-on” exercises with the students.

We have some “standard” exercises that we can do together, but the best thing is to take some real-life “use cases” that students will soon work-on in their own company (or some current use cases that needs upgrading or some re-work) and solve them together. We usually spend an afternoon (or even a day if there are a lot of use cases) together working on these examples/exercises/use_cases. Ideally, the “use cases” that are chosen for the training session should be of interest to all participants.

For use cases: We advice you to take your time to gather them (and also to get all the data files that you need to solve them). In that way, when we’re there in your office for the IRL training session, we can directly solve them without wasting time (for example: collecting the data is always a big waste of time and must be done before the session). So, before planning the training sessions, I suggest you think about and prepare a few “data” use-cases you’d like to solve. If necessary, we can have a brainstorming session together on this subject (remotely) a few weeks before the IRL training session.

Then, after the IRL training session, you can contact us at any time by email, phone or Signal, if you have any concerns. Also, almost systematically, we schedule a follow-up session (in remote) that takes place 2 to 4 weeks after the IRL training. During this follow-up session, we review together any points that have not yet been resolved (e.g.: a complex transformation you’d like to make with Anatella but need advice on how to proceed).

 

2. For expert users

This training is open to anybody with some notion of code: Business (if motivated), IT, dataminer.
Duration: 1 to 2 days + simple user course.

To create new “boxes” within Anatella, you can use Javascript, R or Python. For most tasks, Javascript is the best language because it’s the easiest to use and the fastest at runtime. The Javascript engine included inside Anatella allows to easily develop the most complex data-transformations. During the IRL training session, we’ll work together on a specific use case for you. Please select carefully the use case(s) that you want us to solve together.

Since JavaScript is a very easy language to learn, a small training of one or two days (depending on your level in simple, procedural programmation) is usually enough to cover the basics and get you started.

See the section 9. of Anatella quick user’s guide for a short introduction to JavaScript (available on-line here).