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Data & AI Animation Academy

208 hard ideas. Each one a short animation.

A free, interactive lab that teaches AI/ML engineering, data engineering and data analytics through animation.

Type
Free learning product, live
Role
Curriculum, animation, design and development
Stack
Vite, JavaScript, GSAP, Canvas, Vercel
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Academy home page with three career tracks and a concept sidebar
Academy home page on a phone

The need

People learning data and AI are buried in long articles and longer videos. They need to see one idea move, understand why it works, and know how it breaks in production, in a couple of minutes.

What we built

Three animated career tracks, a dependency-ordered curriculum map, interview answers and production notes for every concept.

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Self-attention concept page with an animated explanation and interview answer

One concept, one animation

Every concept is a short animated build-up, about two minutes, with the interview answer and the production failure attached.

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Home page listing the three tracks and the concept count

Three careers, one library

AI/ML engineering (157 concepts), data engineering (50) and data analytics (37). The tracks share what they have in common, 208 concepts in all.

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Interactive pipeline map connecting data roles

See how the jobs connect

An interactive map shows raw data moving through engineering, analysis, machine learning and AI systems. Click a role to see its lanes, a lane to see its concepts.

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Hot 10 list of topics teams are building

What teams are building now

A hand-curated Hot 10, updated July 2026, from retrieval that survives real users to guardrails against prompt injection.

Try it

This is the Academy's teaching style applied to one idea: how a chatbot finds the right paragraph before it answers.

How a chatbot finds the right paragraph

A four-step explainer in the Academy's style. Use the buttons, or just watch.

Step 1 of 4

Split the documents into chunks

A long policy document is cut into short passages, each small enough to read on its own.

meaning spaceLeave policy.pdfchunk 1chunk 2chunk 3chunk 4chunk 5chunk 6123456?“New joiners get 12 days of paid leave in their first year.”Sources: chunk 2, chunk 4, chunk 5 (sample)

How it works

  1. Pick a track

    AI/ML, data eng., analytics

  2. Open a concept

    From the map or search

  3. Watch

    A two-minute build-up

  4. Interview answer

    What to say

  5. Production note

    How it fails

Why animation works for hard ideas

Text describes a system after the fact. Animation shows it changing: a value moves, a vector rotates, a queue fills and drains. When people see cause and effect one step at a time, they remember it.

Each concept follows the same shape so learners always know where they are:

  • The build-up. One idea, added a step at a time, never more than one change on screen.
  • The answer. How to explain it in an interview, in plain words.
  • The failure. What goes wrong when it runs in production, and how teams notice.

What this means for your business

Your product, onboarding or internal process can be explained the same way. If your sales calls turn into whiteboard sessions, or new hires take weeks to understand how things fit together, an interactive explainer does the explaining for you, at the viewer's own pace.

Tech specs

Concepts
208 in total: AI/ML 157, data engineering 50, data analytics 37 (tracks share concepts)
Format
One animation per concept, about two minutes each
Also inside
Curriculum map in dependency order, interview prep, project ideas, production notes
Navigation
Interactive pipeline map and ⌘K search
Price
Free
Built with
Vite, JavaScript, GSAP, Canvas
Hosting
Vercel

Want something like this for your business?

Tell us what eats your team's week. You'll get a written scope with a fixed price and timeline before any work starts.