Eight percent. That's the share of computer jobs held by Hispanic workers. We are doing something about it.

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Eight percent.

That is the share of U.S. computer jobs held by Hispanic workers, against a 17% share of total employment (Pew Research). The Black share is similarly compressed.

When people talk about the "tech pipeline," they usually mean a 22-year-old with a CS degree from a four-year university. That's one pipeline.

The pipeline I care about is different. It's the 34-year-old organizer in Gwinnett County who already cleans voter files in Google Sheets every Saturday. She knows the data. She knows the community. She has never been told that what she does is a marketable technical skill.

It is.

She's already doing analytics engineering. She just doesn't have SQL.

The DatosLab SQL course was built for her. And for the Spanish-speaking program coordinator in Hall County who manages a thousand-row roster every cycle. And for the Black single mother who runs comms for a small civil rights org and has spent two years asking the consultant for the same chart.

Six 20-minute modules. The first one is BigQuery setup — free tier, no card required. The last one is a documented starting point you can hand to your ED.

You leave with a query you wrote yourself, on your own data, that answers your own organizing question.

We made the course free because the cost of a $1,500 SQL bootcamp is the exact reason the 8% number hasn't moved in a decade.

We sustain it through paid courses on data engineering, pipeline building, and API work, and through donations. If you take the SQL course and it changes your week, the way you pay it forward is to take one of those, or chip in.

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