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Tools, labs and playbooks you can actually run

Everything here is free and open source. The labs and accelerators use synthetic data, so you can run them in your own Fabric tenant.

Research and tools

Data quality for the age of agents: the same batch of data can be safe for an LLM agent and harmful for an ML model.

Python package

agentdq

Profiles how sensitive each data consumer (an ML model, an LLM agent) is to each kind of data defect, then checks every new batch per consumer without labels, with a pass, warn or fail verdict.

For: Data and ML engineers running models and agents on the same tables

Data qualityLLM agentsPython

Paper code

Asymmetric Data-Quality Sensitivity

The corruption library, paired ML and agent evaluation harness, and sweep results behind the paper on why the defects that break ML pipelines differ from those that break LLM agents.

For: Researchers and practitioners who want to reproduce or extend the results

ResearchAzure AI FoundryReproducible

Playbooks and utilities

Small, practical things you can use this week.

Interactive assessment

STRATA: AI Data Readiness Playbook

Decide whether your data is ready for one specific AI use case. 18 questions across six layers (Sourced, Traceable, Retrievable, Aligned, Timely, Audited), six separate scores, open critical gaps and a 30/60/90-day plan. Runs entirely in the browser.

For: Data leaders scoping an AI assistant or RAG chatbot

AI readinessGovernanceAssessment

Fabric notebook

Apply BPA fixes with Semantic Link Labs

Runs the Best Practice Analyzer on a semantic model, turns the findings into an editable fix plan, shows a dry run, then applies only the fixes you approved. No Tabular Editor needed.

For: Power BI and Fabric developers maintaining semantic models

Semantic modelsPower BISemantic Link

Hands-on labs and accelerators

End-to-end builds on Microsoft Fabric with synthetic data, so you can run them in your own tenant.

Workshop

Sudsberry Property Assessment Data Lab

Nine modules from three mirrored sources through a Bronze, Silver and Gold medallion, AI enrichment with Fabric AI functions, a Direct Lake report, a Fabric ontology and an ontology-grounded data agent.

For: Teams learning Fabric end to end, from ingestion to data agents

MedallionDirect LakeOntologyData agents

Workshop

UrbanPulse Data Lab

A smart-city scenario in 12 modules across five goals: ingest, transform, build a report, apply AI and set up source control, with simulators for streaming data.

For: Software vendors and teams building analytics products on Fabric

Real-timePower BIGit integration

Accelerator

Student Advising Multi-Agent Copilot

A governed multi-agent copilot: three Fabric data agents answer as the signed-in advisor, a Foundry router decides who to ask, and a policy knowledge base adds cited rules. Includes the data generator, Direct Lake model, ontology and a Streamlit app.

For: Architects designing agents over governed enterprise data

Fabric data agentsAzure AI FoundryMulti-agent

Accelerator

Academic Early Warning System

Predicts each student's course outcome from LMS activity and explains every prediction, using time-aware weekly features with no look-ahead leakage, a calibrated model published with MLflow, and a model card.

For: Teams building explainable ML on Fabric

Machine learningMLflowExplainability

Short courses

Guided lessons, free and self-paced.

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