Building 12th Data in the Open

This note is planned as the build log for 12th Data. Nothing described below is implemented yet — this is the design thinking before any code is written.

What 12th Data is meant to be

An open-source, public-data platform built around Texas A&M football data: ingestion pipelines, a Postgres store for structured queries, Parquet for analytical workloads, and visualizations on top. The intent is to document the real path from raw public data to a usable analysis, including the parts that don’t work on the first try.

Planned log entries

• Why the pipeline will land on Python + SQL first, before any orchestration tooling.
• Initial schema design for game, play, and season-level data.
• How Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps fit a project this size without becoming overhead for their own sake.
• The first public dataset released, once one exists.

As of this writing, 12th Data is a plan, not a running system. This note will be updated as that changes.