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Breaking Games SQL & Database Architecture

Turn six messy CSVs into an analytics database and a Q4 dashboard that drives real business decisions. SQL + Claude.

8 weeks

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July 13, 2026

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Six messy CSVs, no database, and one question nobody can answer: what’s actually working?

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Picture your first week at a fast-growing game company. There’s no database, nobody who knows SQL, and the business needs to know where to spend its next marketing dollar and where to pull back. Over 8 weeks, you’ll build two skills at once: questioning data with SQL, and working alongside Claude the way real analysts do now — it does the typing, you do the thinking. You’ll design the database that makes sense of the chaos, write the SQL that connects everything, and finish with a live HTML dashboard and a real recommendation for the business. No past database or SQL experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to learn by doing.

Project Output

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Deliver a working analytics database and a clear, data-backed recommendation that tells Breaking Games where to spend and where to pull back.

Load and explore the raw data: Get six separate data files into a database and write your first queries — feeling firsthand why messy, disconnected data is so hard to work with.
Design a database that connects the data: Structure proper tables, link them with keys, and join them to follow one customer’s journey from first ad click to purchase.
Find out what’s actually selling: Rank the full product catalog by what drives revenue, build summary tables, and turn the numbers into a clear restock recommendation.
See which marketing is working: Clean hundreds of messy traffic sources into tidy channels, then calculate which ads and channels actually pay off.
Investigate why carts get abandoned: Dig into thousands of abandoned carts, uncover which “shoppers” are bots skewing the numbers, and calculate the real abandonment rate.
Build a dashboard and make your recommendation: Pull everything into a clean, shareable HTML dashboard and make your case to the team.

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Skills You'll Gain

Designing an analytics-optimized database iteratively from raw CSVs — dimension tables, summary tables, and views, driven by real business questions.

Writing SQL to answer business questions and to verify every answer you get back, with Claude doing the typing.

Working with primary keys, foreign keys, and JOINs to connect scattered data into one reliable picture.

Running business analytics — KPI selection, marketing attribution, conversion analysis, and customer segmentation.

Collaborating with AI deliberately: briefing context, iterating on wrong answers, cross-checking output, and knowing when not to use it.

Telling a data story — designing a dashboard, choosing what to show, and explaining your numbers with confidence.

Your Schedule

8 weeks

Project 1

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Load & Explore the Raw Data

Project 2

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Design a Database That Connects the Data

Project 3

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Find Out What's Actually Selling

Project 4

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See Which Marketing Is Working

Project 5

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Investigate Why Carts Get Abandoned

Project 6

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Build a Dashboard & Make Your Recommendation

About Breaking Games

Breaking Games is the publishing arm of AdMagic—the powerhouse behind hits like Cards Against Humanity and Exploding Kittens. But they’re more than just a traditional publisher. They help invent, test, launch, and distribute both their own games and others’, working across the entire tabletop ecosystem. This externship offers a rare peek behind the scenes of how digital marketing powers the business side of play.

The Home Depot is not accepting or considering any applications for this Externship through other channels.

Meet Your Host

Shari Spiro

CEO

Shari loves being challenged daily to develop and discover new manufacturing, warehouse and fulfillment and tech stack processes. She relishes in the challenges and rewards of putting games and crazy products into Retailers like Target, Barnes and Noble, Wal Mart, etc.and of course online into the hands of consumers through BreakingGames.com, Blackbox.cool and Amazon. International distribution and warehouse business are her specialty.