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title: Data preparation
slug: qatar-airways-hol/data-preparation
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createdAt: 2024-02-08T13:39:26.044Z
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Customer Journey Analytics consumes data directly from the AEP Data Lake; therefore, before doing our analysis in Customer Journey Analytics we need to ingest data in AEP. 

In this exercise you'll learn:

- which datasets and schemas can be used in CJA;
- how to create a Connections to ingest data from AEP into CJA;
- how to create Components in Data Views.