This course will introduce students to the basics of the Structured Query Language (SQL) as well as basic database design for storing data as part of a multi-step data gathering, analysis, and processing effort. The course will use SQLite3 as its database. We will also build web crawlers and multi-step data gathering and visualization processes. We will use the D3.js library to do basic data visualization. This course will cover Chapters 14-15 of the book “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-13 of the textbook and the first three courses in this specialization. This course covers Python 3.
Using Databases with Python
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Using Databases with Python
This course is part of Python for Everybody Specialization
Instructor: Charles Russell Severance
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Use the Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations to manage databases
Explain the basics of Object Oriented Python
Understand how data is stored across multiple tables in a database
Utilize the Google Maps API to visualize data
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There are 5 modules in this course
To start this class out we cover the basics of Object Oriented Python. We won't be writing our own objects, but since many of the things we use like BeautifulSoup, strings, dictionaries, database connections all use Object Oriented (OO) patterns we should at least understand some of its patterns and terminology.
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We learn the four core CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) to manage data stored in a database.
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6 videos1 assignment2 app items
In this section we learn about how data is stored across multiple tables in a database and how rows are linked (i.e., we establish relationships) in the database.
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8 videos1 assignment1 app item
In this section we explore how to model situations like students enrolling in courses where each course has many students and each student is enrolled in many courses.
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4 videos1 assignment1 app item
In this section, we put it all together, retrieve and process some data and then use the OpenStreetMaps API to visualize our data.
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