When data is for Agents, not humans

Overview

Who will be consuming your data - humans or agents? When it’s agents, do you structure it differently? Optimize for token budgets instead of disk or query cost?

From what I see, we might not need clean, joined data (agents can do that), but descriptions of relationships. Functions become checklists. Tools beat tables. Logs beat docs. Ambiguity + context might work better than a single-source of truth.

It’s a 4-hour hands-on session. You’ll be doing the work and sharing results, not watching slides. We’ll share prompts live and the recording afterwards.

What this workshop is about

In this workshop, we’ll (together) explore:

1. How data engineering for agents is different than for humans
2. How agents themselves can help engineer the data for agents

Audience

This session is for:

• data engineers connecting agents into pipelines
• analytics/BI folks whose dashboards are vanishing into chatbots
• anyone publishing docs, schemas, or APIs that agents will read

What you’ll leave with

1. A working feel for how the same dataset looks different to a human and to an agent
2. An agent data checklist: can an agent discover, understand, efficiently retrieve, call the right tool, trust the source, recover from errors?
3. Prompts and small scripts to make your tables, docs, and logs agent-accessible
4. Your results, published and shared, reproducibly

What to bring

• Laptop (your tablet/phone won’t do for this session), a modern browser
• A paid ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro account (~Rs 2,000 - just buy a month). The free tiers won’t do some exercises.
• Optional, for coders: uv, Node.js, and DuckDB installed
• Datasets, docs, logs, photos, or anything you care about. We’ll work with your data

About the instructor

Anand is an LLM psychologist at Straive and co-founder of Gramener, a data stories company. He’s listed among India’s top 10 data scientists and AI influencers and is a regular TEDx/Pycon speaker. More importantly, he hand-transcribed every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever, is addicted to Minecraft & Anime (thanks to his daughter), and dreams of watching every film on the IMDb Top 250 (except The Shining). He blogs at s-anand.net.

How to attend this workshop

This workshop is open to:
🎟️ Fifth Elephant community members — https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant#memberships
🎟️ Ticket holders for The Fifth Elephant annual conference — https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/enterprise-ai-in-production-meetup#tickets

This workshop is open to 30 participants (in-person) & hybrid access for remote attendees. Seats for in-person participants will be available on first-come-first-served basis. 🎟️

Need more info?

☎️ Call: (91) 7676332020
📧 Email: info@hasgeek.com