# Data With Baraa

> Data With Baraa is the data education brand of Baraa Khatib Salkini. He teaches SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI and Databricks with hand-drawn sketches that show how data works, not just the syntax. The full courses are free on YouTube. The paid versions in the Data With Baraa Academy add structure, progress tracking and a certificate.

Facts, October 2026:

- Baraa worked 17 years in data engineering in Germany, from 2008 to 2025, at Mercedes-Benz, Bosch and IBM. At Mercedes-Benz his team built one of its largest lakehouses, with more than 40 analytical projects on Databricks. In November 2025 he left the corporate world to teach full time.
- The YouTube channel @DataWithBaraa has more than 500,000 subscribers and 33 million views.
- The DataNotes newsletter has more than 167,000 subscribers. More than 20,000 learners have enrolled in the Academy, and his Udemy courses have more than 18,000 reviews.
- The teaching stays free: the full SQL, Python and Tableau courses are on YouTube, and every course has a free guide with its files.
- In the Academy: SQL 30 hours, 28 sections, 304 lectures, 3 projects. Python 13 hours, 17 sections, 175 lectures, 3 projects. Tableau 25 hours, 17 sections, 179 lectures, 2 projects. Each is $19.99, one payment, with a certificate and subtitles in 8 languages. The bundle of all three is $49.99.
- The SQL Handbook is a 328-page PDF with 101 hand-drawn sketches; the Python Handbook is a 180-page PDF. Each is $9.99, one payment.
- Course names differ by platform: the SQL course is "SQL Full Course for Beginners" on YouTube, "The Ultimate SQL Mastery" on this site and "Complete SQL Mastery" in the Academy. Python and Tableau follow the same pattern.

## Courses

- [The Ultimate SQL Mastery](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/course/sql-full-course-for-beginners): SQL from the first SELECT to window functions and performance, with three projects (a data warehouse, an exploratory data analysis, an advanced analytics project). The full curriculum is on the page.
- [The Ultimate Python Mastery](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/course/the-ultimate-python-mastery): Python from scratch to functions, with quizzes and three projects.
- [The Ultimate Tableau Mastery](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/course/tableau-ultimate-full-course-for-beginners): Tableau from the first chart to dashboards, with two projects.
- [All courses and handbooks](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/courses)

## Free full courses on YouTube

- [SQL Full Course for Beginners (30 Hours) – From Zero to Hero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKVgrwhzus)
- [Python Full Course for Beginners (13 Hours) – From Zero to Hero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq5gJVxz55Q)
- [Tableau Ultimate Full Course (21 Hours) for Beginners - From Zero to HERO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3pXnbniUcM)
- [Complete HR Tableau Project End-to-End | Like I Do in My Real Projects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGF09Awm4Y)
- [Tableau Complete Project End-to-End | Like I Do in My Real Projects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dahrmqT5GD4)
- [Power BI Ultimate Course](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcg_FV9n7qZge4KDGqGtqgiuVuhVZWzu)
- [Databricks playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcg_FV9n7qZoxVkw-KPhcmgLWjHWVUc9)

## Free guides with the course files

- [SQL guide](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/wiki/sql)
- [Python guide](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/wiki/python)
- [Tableau guide](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/wiki/tableau)
- [Power BI guide](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/wiki/power-bi)
- [Databricks guide](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/wiki/databricks)

## The project

- [Build a SQL data warehouse from scratch](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/projects/sql-data-warehouse): the free end-to-end data engineering project.

## Handbooks

- [The SQL Handbook](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/handbook/the-sql-handbook): 328 pages, 101 hand-drawn sketches, in the order of the SQL course.
- [The Python Handbook](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/handbook/the-python-handbook): 180 pages of sketches, notes and code, in the order of the Python course.

## Optional

- [About Baraa](https://www.datawithbaraa.com/about)
- [Data With Baraa Academy](https://academy.datawithbaraa.com/)
- [DataNotes newsletter](https://www.blog.datawithbaraa.com/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/DataWithBaraa)