This course prepares learners to engineer governed unstructured data pipelines for AI training, semantic search, and RAG systems. Learners design ingestion workflows for documents and multimodal content, apply extraction and OCR-aware processing, normalize text while preserving useful structure, detect sensitive information, create chunking strategies, and enrich corpora with metadata for citation, filtering, lineage, and governance.

Unstructured Data Engineering for AI

Unstructured Data Engineering for AI
This course is part of IBM AI-Native Data Engineering Professional Certificate


Instructors: Antonio Cangiano
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2 weeks to complete
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What you'll learn
1.Build ingestion and extraction workflows for documents and multimodal AI corpora.
2. Apply OCR-aware processing, normalization, and PII-safe corpus preparation.
3. Design chunking and metadata enrichment for retrieval, training, and citation use cases.
4. Apply safety, licensing, bias, and source-quality gates to unstructured AI data assets.
Skills you'll gain
- Document Management
- Release Management
- Data Cleansing
- Information Architecture
- Metadata Management
- Text Mining
- Unstructured Data
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Responsible AI
- Data Collection
- Data Processing
- Data Engineering
- Data Governance
- Personally Identifiable Information
- Data Quality
- Data Capture
- Taxonomy
- Data Architecture
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July 2026
Assessments
30 assignments
Taught in English
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