# The importance of use cases ### About this export | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | **content_type** | lesson | | **platform** | contentstack-academy | | **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/getting-started-with-data-insights/data-insights-course-1--the-importance-of-use-cases | | **course_slug** | getting-started-with-data-insights | | **lesson_slug** | data-insights-course-1--the-importance-of-use-cases | | **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/getting-started-with-data-insights/data-insights-course-1--the-importance-of-use-cases.md | | **generated_at** | 2026-05-22T14:37:28.615Z | > Part of **[Getting Started with Data and Insights](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/getting-started-with-data-insights)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys. #### Video details #### At a glance - **Title:** 2-data-insights-importance-of-usecases - **Duration:** 1m 55s - **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/6flGRiG3 - **Publish date (unix):** 1752805377 #### Streaming renditions - application/vnd.apple.mpegurl - audio/mp4 · AAC Audio · 113695 kbps - video/mp4 · 180p · 180p · 146420 kbps - video/mp4 · 270p · 270p · 168050 kbps - video/mp4 · 360p · 360p · 176733 kbps - video/mp4 · 406p · 406p · 187259 kbps - video/mp4 · 540p · 540p · 228563 kbps - video/mp4 · 720p · 720p · 295330 kbps - video/mp4 · 1080p · 1080p · 489076 kbps #### Timed text tracks (delivery) - **thumbnails:** `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/strips/6flGRiG3-120.vtt` #### Video transcript So, one of the common problems or common things that our customers do and people get excited about the Linux platform do incorrectly is just install and expect magic to happen without having some idea of what you want to achieve. That idea can be super simple. It can just be, I want to merge my email users with my web users to understand how the campaign is impacting them. Or I want to build known profiles where I have an email address and I can communicate them with them outside of just the web. It doesn't have to be these big, crazy strategies, but some idea of what you're trying to achieve allows us to kind of refine the experience in the UI and drive you in the right direction so that you don't get lost in all of the things that you could do in Linux because it's super broad and a little bit challenging in some cases to get value if you just jump in expecting it to be simple. So, I won't go through all of these, but if you're bored, if you just want some ideas on how Linux can power different things, we have this inspiration library. This is an area where we want to continue to expand, but it'll give you some ideas from a marketing standpoint what Linux can do out of the box. So, don't need to go into too much more detail than that, but if you click on some of these, they'll give examples, they'll walk through. Many of them will actually have a tutorial on how to go through them, and the ones that don't, if there's questions, we can sort of, you know, maybe spend a session or whatever later on how we would walk through and execute that. So, it's a good way to just sort of get the ideas flowing on what it might mean for end users. #### Key takeaways - Connect **The importance of use cases** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module. - Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment. - Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model. ## Supplement for indexing ### Content summary The importance of use cases. The importance of use cases in Getting Started with Data and Insights (getting-started-with-data-insights). ### Retrieval tags - The - importance - use - cases - getting-started-with-data-insights - lesson 02 - The importance of use cases - getting-started-with-data-insights lesson ### Indexing notes Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "02" and topics: [The, importance, use, cases]. Parent course slug: getting-started-with-data-insights. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present. Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file. ### Asset references | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Video thumbnail: The importance of use cases | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6flGRiG3/poster.jpg?width=720` | ### External links | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` | | Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` | | Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` | | Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |