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Build Dashboards & Pipelines Free | Databricks Free Edition Tutorial

Build dashboards with Genie's natural language interface, create serverless data pipelines with LakeFlow, run SQL queries, and experiment with 20+…

In short

Build dashboards with Genie's natural language interface, create serverless data pipelines with LakeFlow, run SQL queries, and experiment with 20+ LLMs—all free, no credit card required.

Source: official Databricks documentation · Databricks announcement

Key takeaways

  • Databricks Free Edition enables students and developers to experiment with data and AI at no cost.
  • Ingest data, build serverless pipelines with LakeFlow, train ML models, and run SQL queries free.
  • Genie creates interactive dashboards via natural language prompts without writing code.
  • 20+ LLMs available in Free Edition; fully serverless, no charges.
  • Sign up at databricks.com/learn/free-edition; workspace deploys in seconds.

Chapters

  • 0:00 — Introduction
  • 0:04 — What is Free Edition?
  • 0:36 — Key Features Overview
  • 1:07 — Dashboard Building with Genie
  • 1:12 — Data Pipelines with LakeFlow
  • 1:22 — Coding Assistance
  • 1:41 — Getting Started Walkthrough
  • 2:14 — Workspace Features Tour
  • 3:21 — Databricks Academy

Frequently asked questions

What can you build with Databricks Free Edition?

You can ingest data, create serverless data pipelines with LakeFlow, train ML models, run SQL queries, and build interactive dashboards with Genie. Access to 20+ LLMs and Databricks Academy included, all at no cost.

Is Free Edition truly free?

Yes, Free Edition is completely free with no credit card required. All features are fully serverless, so you pay nothing regardless of usage.

How long does it take to get started?

Workspace deployment takes just a few seconds after signing up at databricks.com/learn/free-edition and providing your email and location.

Who is Free Edition designed for?

Free Edition targets students, developers, and anyone wanting to upskill on data and AI technologies without cost, plus those learning data engineering concepts and building AI agents.

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0:04Hi, my name is Yousef and I'm a solutions architect at Databricks. I'm excited to introduce you to the Databricks free edition that was announced at the Data and AI Summit in case you miss it. It's designed to help students and developers experiment with the latest data and AI technologies at no cost. On free edition, you can ingest data, build pipelines, and train ML

0:26models with the same unified data intelligence platform that is used by millions of data and AI professionals as well as learn and share ideas with a global community of students and experts. More specifically, free edition can be used for AI applications and agents by preparing and processing data, experimenting with foundation models,

0:48and deploying and testing AI systems and evaluating models or within a collaborative notebooks for data exploration analysis by importing real data data sets, running SQL queries, visualizing results, and building hands-on experience by analyzing real data. Interactive dashboards by creating dashboards and visualization using tools

1:10like Genie and natural language prompts. Data pipelines by using serverless tools such as LakeFlow to design, ingest, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines for ETL. Hands-on coding help by getting coding assistance from the data in Databricks assistant directly within notebooks including code suggestions and help. How can I get

1:32started? Well, that's easy. Let me show you. You need to browse to databicks.com/learnfree-edition. Then click on sign up for free edition. Enter your details or your choose the emails you want to use to access your workspace and then I'm going to create a new account. Specify the location. Let

1:55me choosei United States. Click on continue. And as you will see within few seconds your workspace uh is going to be deployed and then you can start testing exploring playing with the environment and upskilling yourself. This is really a cool way to learn uh how to use data

2:17bricks. And as you can see my workspace is now ready. I can connect my my my repo many cataloges build and browse to find my cataloges. I can build my ETL pipeline using SQL editor to create my queries and creating my my KPI. I can build dashboards. I can access some

2:39feature dashboard like New York taxi trip analysis. I can start using Jenny. I already have an example big house sales starter space. Play with the playground when I have a bunch of LLMs that are already available. And you can see we have many of them over here. start developing in notebooks and as I did mention everything is fully serverless and you don't pay anything by

3:03using the platform. This video is just the start. In the future I will share with you how you can use the free edition to run SQL, Python, visualize data, understand data engineering concepts and build AI agents and classical ML models. Lastly, you can upskill more through Databris Academy, our centralized hub for learning data

3:26and AI.

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