Build your Agency Data Pipeline by Coding is for Losers
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Build your Agency Data Pipeline

Bring your digital agency into the 22nd century

Buy for $999

Overview

Wrestle your agency's data analysis workflow completely to the ground, by building a BigQuery data pipeline to house + analyze all of your critical data.  Down with chaos!

At CIFL, we operate the Agency Data Pipeline service for a number of digital agencies - ranging from SEO to eCommerce, and in size from 5 clients to 50.  

This course completely opens the kimono on how we operate that service, and allows you to build + operate your own Agency Data Pipeline.

The course includes: 

  • A detailed walkthrough of how we built our own internal data pipeline at CIFL, pulling data from 8 APIs (Google Analytics, FB Ads, and more) to answer the question: which is the highest performing marketing channel for the CIFL blog?
  • Roadmapping exercises and instructions for building your own data pipeline, specific to the challenges of your work. 
  • A one-hour coaching session with David, commissioner of Coding is for Losers, to make sure your data pipeline tracking plan gets put into action.

Many thanks to Supermetrics and Stitch for providing demo accounts for use in building the course.

With love,
David
Commissioner, Coding is for Losers

What's included?

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Contents

Intro to the Course Pipeline Project
WTF is ADP?
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Copy the Tracking Plan Template
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Check out the Demo Pipeline Tracking Plan
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Check out the Demo Pipeline SQL Models on Github
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Check out the Demo Pipeline Data Studio dashboard
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Start your Pipeline with a Question
Intro to question asking
2 mins
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Demo questions for the CIFL pipeline
7 mins
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Translating your Question into a Tracking Plan
Meet the Tracking Plan
5 mins
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Mapping out your Data Sources
6 mins
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Planning your Data Models
7 mins
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Scoping out each Site or Client
5 mins
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Firing up your Data Feeds
Intro to data feeds
2 mins
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BigQuery initial setup
4 mins
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Setting up your BigQuery tables
7 mins
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Pushing data from Sheets to BigQuery
6 mins
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Supermetrics quickstart for beginners
3 mins
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Pulling data from unsupported APIs into the Tracking Plan
9 mins
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Using Stitch for Automated Data Feeding
Stitch initial setup
3 mins
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Pulling GA data using Stitch
7 mins
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Pulling Adwords data using Stitch
4 mins
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Pulling FB Ads data using Stitch
4 mins
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Writing SQL queries to answer your questions
Intro to DBT for SQL data modeling
4 mins
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Creating your DBT project
8 mins
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Connect your BigQuery database to DBT
8 mins
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Writing your 'processing' level SQL queries
9 mins
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Writing your 'join' level SQL models
6 mins
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Sidenote: on debugging DBT models
7 mins
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Pro tip: standardizing URL structure
3 mins
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Pro tip: using DBT macros
6 mins
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Writing your 'admin' level SQL models
3 mins
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Writing your 'math' and 'visualization' level SQL models
8 mins
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Visualizing your analysis in Data Studio
Intro to visualization with Data Studio
3 mins
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QCing your raw data in Data Studio
6 mins
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Reaching the summit: answering your question
11 mins
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Answering ancillary questions
4 mins
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Pulling data from BigQuery into Sheets
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Putting your Pipeline into production
Intro to productionalizing your pipeline
2 mins
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Pushing your SQL models to Github
3 mins
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Using Sinter to run your SQL models on a schedule
5 mins
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Scheduling your data pipeline
5 mins
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Testing changes to your data pipeline
3 mins
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QCing data using Supermetrics as a check
5 mins
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Congrats!
Wapow! You made it.
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Making Spreadsheets Great Again

Helping you wrangle your data + automate your work, without (hardly ever) leaving Google Sheets. 

FAQs

Is the course only for digital agency owners?

Nope - if you work with sales + marketing data in any way (Google Analytics, FB Ads, SEMrush, a CRM, Shopify, etc) in your work, you can benefit from data pipelining.

If you don't analyze digital marketing + sales data in your day-to-day work, I'd recommend not taking this course.

How much do the tools cost to build my pipeline?

The tools required to build your pipeline are:

  1. Stitch (Free up to 5mm rows pushed to a database, $100 / month and up after that) or Supermetrics ($50 / month) for pulling data from APIs
  2. Google Sheets + Apps Script (Free)
  3. Google BigQuery (or similar database) for data warehousing (free 12month trial + $300 credit, cost varies by usage after that)
  4. DBT to model data using SQL (Free + open-source)
  5. Sinter to run DBT models on a schedule (Free for up to 6 runs a day, $100 / month for unlimited runs)

So the bottom line is - the cost of your pipeline depends on the size of your pipeline.  If you're pulling + storing a small amount of data, it may be completely free.  

If you're pulling a large amount of data, it will be more expensive.  The raw tool cost for most of our large Agency Data Pipeline implementations is around $500-$600 a month.