Learning path
Data Lineage
Guided path · 1 stage · 6 resources
The guided path
Column-level provenance — what broke, what depends on it and where to fix it. This path sequences the category's 6 resources by roadmap stage and composite score — work top-down inside each step.
Observability
- Lineage Explainer 35.5 — Answer "what breaks if I change this column?" with evidence.
- Column-level lineage: the concepts and the event standard 34.15 — Column-level lineage: the concepts and the event standard
- Walkthrough: the lineage-explainer skill, from question to impact set 34.15 — Walkthrough: the lineage-explainer skill, from question to impact set
- Lineage tooling in practice: DataHub MCP and the lineage-graph plugin 31.15 — Lineage tooling in practice: DataHub MCP and the lineage-graph plugin
- Lineage Graph 28.6 — Lineage Graph
- OpenLineage Documentation 26.7 — OpenLineage Documentation
Prerequisites across the path
Documented prerequisites, deduplicated: skill-sql-review.
What you will be able to do
- Read the lineages of an asset from a lineage store
- Compute a downstream impact set
- Distinguish technical from business lineage
- Explain why column-level lineage beats table-level for change impact
- Read an OpenLineage event and name its Airflow, Spark and dbt integrations
- Compute a downstream impact set from a lineage store
- Install and invoke the lineage-explainer skill
- Distinguish technical lineage from business lineage in its output
Before you start
Security-flagged: Lineage Explainer, Lineage tooling in practice: DataHub MCP and the lineage-graph plugin, Lineage Graph — review the security posture first. Verification on these records: 6 community. Nothing here is independently audited — the trust scan and your own review are the controls.
Where this sits
Phase 3 of the roadmap. Stage context: Observability · side-by-side comparison · all learning topics