Learn AI Data Engineering in a Month of Lunches

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  • MEAP began September 2025
  • Last updated September 2025
  • Publication in Summer 2026 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633435728
  • 225 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white

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Reliable and effective AI-powered data pipelines delivered in just a month of lunches!

Learn AI Data Engineering in a Month of Lunches is a fast, friendly guide to integrating large language models into your data workflows. In just 17 short lessons, you’ll learn how AI can help you handle time-consuming data engineering tasks including transformations, calculations, and the never-ending chore of data cleaning–all illustrated with instantly-familiar SQL and Python use cases!

In Learn AI Data Engineering in a Month of Lunches you’ll learn how to:

  • Craft smarter prompts to get the best results from LLMs on data tasks
  • Use ChatGPT to write, debug, and optimize SQL and Python faster
  • Embed AI directly into pipelines to automate code, analysis, and enrichment
  • Clean, transform, and extract insights from real-world messy data with AI
  • Build agentic workflows that capture and scale subject matter expertise

Learn AI Data Engineering in a Month of Lunches shows you far more than copy-pasting prompts or using AI as a coding assistant. You’ll learn how to integrate LLMs at an API level to give a real performance and efficiency boost to your pipelines. Each chapter contains a new relevant technique to automate transformations, enrich datasets, and accelerate tedious workflows with AI.

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Learn AI Data Engineering in a Month of Lunches teaches you to apply AI to the most important data engineering tasks. You’ll build a portfolio of hands-on projects, like querying the Pagila DVD rental database with ChatGPT, performing real-time sentiment analysis on news headlines, and even prototyping agentic workflows that simulate real business rules. With each lesson designed to fit into a lunch break, you’ll learn just enough theory to understand the why, and then immediately put it into practice.

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For aspiring and veteran data professionals who know Python and SQL.

about the author

Dave Melillo is a data leader with deep expertise across data analytics, data engineering, data architecture, and data science and machine learning. He has built large-scale data products, architected modern pipelines, and trained professionals at universities and Fortune 500 companies. His writing on practical data strategies has been featured in Towards Data Science and Dev Genius.
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