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Hi, I’m Baraa

I spent 17 years in data. Now I teach it.

You learn SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI and Databricks with a sketch first, then real code.

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Reviews, 4.7 out of 5

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Courses and handbooks

Learn with the courses. Keep the handbooks open at work.

Why learn with
Data With Baraa

Years of data experience, shared with you

Built From 17 Years of Industry Work

I worked in data at three major companies in Germany.
I have seen what works, what breaks and what matters, and I share all of it with you.

Industry-relevant tools: Python, SQL, Tableau & more

Best practices for architecture and data quality

Baraa smiling with his arms crossed, wearing a dark blazer

Past roles, in career order: IBM, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz.

If you’re a visual thinker, this is for you

Visual Learning That Lasts

Forget the endless slides and heavy theory.
Every concept comes with a hand-drawn, animated sketch, so you see how it works instead of memorizing it.

See each idea drawn step by step

Understand how each tool works and when to use it

Baraa's sketch of the Databricks platform, with the data team around it
Baraa's sketch of how SQL gets answers from a company's database

Projects, not just lessons

Build Real Portfolio Projects

You build end-to-end projects the way modern data teams do: you design, clean and deliver data.
By the end, you’ll have a portfolio that shows what you can do.

Work on the data problems companies face every day

Follow each step, from the plan to the dashboard

The finished sales dashboard on Tableau Public: sales, profit and quantity by month, by subcategory and over time
The project plan in Notion: the SQL Data Warehouse Project, its six main steps from requirements analysis to the gold layer, four done and two in progress
1subcategory_sales = (2spark.sql(f"""3SELECT4sub_category,5ROUND(SUM(sales), 0)  AS total_sales,6ROUND(SUM(profit), 0) AS total_profit,7RANK() OVER (8ORDER BY SUM(sales) DESC9) AS sales_rank10FROM {GOLD}.fact_sales11WHERE YEAR(order_date) = 202312GROUP BY sub_category13""")14.withColumn("is_loss", col("total_profit") < 0)15.orderBy("sales_rank")16)

Watch my most popular videos

Free courses, projects and more, watched over 17 million times.

  1. Roadmap

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    SQL Used in Real Data Projects

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Data With Baraa community

“Very clear instructions, easy to follow with the exercises. I was 0 before the course and now my confidence is pretty high”

Sharad S.★★★★★SQL course

“Finally, after 15 days, I completed the whole 30-hour course. And oh, I got to tell you, it was perfect.”

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“He teaches everything from a granular level, by the time we get to the complex stuff, you are already familiar with why and how things work.”

Rendani M.★★★★★Python course

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“Paused on the 3rd hour just to type and say thank you! This course has helped me get the job I want and I want to thank you so much!”

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“Baraa is a phenomenal teacher. … This course is worth much much more than the price. It's a steal deal!”

Hardik G.★★★★★SQL course

“One thing that separates your channel from the rest is the sketches. They really help simplify concepts.”

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“I've been working with Tableau for about 4 or 5 years, and I've learned more in this course than any other course or experience I've had.”

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“The most important part for me, especially with learning SQL, is how Baraa helped me to visualize all steps.”

Barry M.★★★★★SQL course

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“The best course in Python for people like me that have 0 experience! Thanks Baraa.”

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“This is an entire four year course and many years working experience summarized in 30 hours. Amazing!”

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I’m Baraa Khatib Salkini

I have worked with data since 2008, when I started as a student. Later I did my master’s in data engineering in Germany. My student job became a career: developer, consultant, lead engineer, and in the end product owner of a global data team.

In those 17 years I helped build data platforms for some of Germany’s biggest companies, Mercedes-Benz, Bosch and IBM among them. At Mercedes-Benz my team built one of its largest lakehouses, with more than 40 analytical projects on Databricks.

What I enjoyed most was never the code. It was explaining how something works, with a drawing. That is how Data With Baraa started. Today more than 500,000 people subscribe to the YouTube channel.

In November 2025 I left the corporate world to do this full time. The teaching stays free. If you watched a video, shared a sketch or learned something from me: thank you. This is still just the beginning.

Baraa in 2015, presenting his master's thesis about testing data warehouses
Baraa with the Mercedes-Benz star at the Mercedes-Benz Museum
Baraa holding the YouTube Silver Play Button for 100,000 subscribers
Baraa at his desk in the studio where he makes his courses