Databricks for Analysts

I put together some slides for getting started with Databricks for the Economics of Education Research Centre. This might come in useful for other analysts: most of this is universal to all Databricks workspaces, except the naming convention for the SQL Warehouse environment variable (some call it DATABRICKS_HTTP_PATH).

The deck covers:

• Working in the browser on Databricks.
• Working on a desktop IDE.
• Some thoughts on best practice, computation (tbl() and collect()), version control, AGENTS.md, and context.