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About the Course

As data collection has increased exponentially, so has the need for people skilled at using and interacting with data; to be able to think critically, and provide insights to make better decisions and optimize their businesses. This is a data scientist, “part mathematician, part computer scientist, and part trend spotter” (SAS Institute, Inc.). According to Glassdoor, being a data scientist is the best job in America; with a median base salary of $110,000 and thousands of job openings at a time. The skills necessary to be a good data scientist include being able to retrieve and work with data, and to do that you need to be well versed in SQL, the standard language for communicating with database systems. This course is designed to give you a primer in the fundamentals of SQL and working with data so that you can begin analyzing it for data science purposes. You will begin to ask the right questions and come up with good answers to deliver valuable insights for your organization. This course starts with the basics and assumes you do not have any knowledge or skills in SQL. It will build on that foundation and gradually have you write both simple and complex queries to help you select data from tables. You'll start to work with different types of data like strings and numbers and discuss methods to filter and pare down your results. You will create new tables and be able to move data into them. You will learn common operators and how to combine the data. You will use case statements and concepts like data governance and profiling. You will discuss topics on data, and practice using real-world programming assignments. You will interpret the structure, meaning, and relationships in source data and use SQL as a professional to shape your data for targeted analysis purposes. Although we do not have any specific prerequisites or software requirements to take this course, a simple text editor is recommended for the final project. So what are you waiting for? This is your first step in landing a job in the best occupation in the US and soon the world!...

Top reviews

GC

Dec 29, 2022

Great course! A solid way to introduce a learner to programming in SQL!! Sadie is an amazing online instructor! Thank you to Sadie and UC Davis for offering this course through the Coursera platform!!

JP

Apr 5, 2020

This course has really helped with optimizing queries that I work with everyday, enhancing my understanding of RDBMS, joins, analyzing and structuring exactly what you need and yielding those results.

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By Olexandr V

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Dec 29, 2017

Great course, although final peer-reviewed assignment seems a little bit odd.

By Anna G

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Feb 12, 2023

Very good course to start SQL, but sometimes is too difficult for beginners.

By Mansur

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Aug 17, 2020

Thanks for nice course. But I would assign more exercises during the course.

By Andreas O

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Feb 2, 2023

sehr hilfreich, komprimiert und dennoch alles wichtige sehr gut vermittelt.

By Avani G

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Feb 5, 2019

Lectures were good, final assignment was not great i.e. confusing in parts.

By Lorenzo T

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Sep 6, 2018

In the last part of the course I was expecting more advanced notions of SQL

By Xiao S T

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Mar 5, 2021

easy to understand and a lot of practices to do to let me understand well.

By Lauren E O R

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Aug 1, 2020

I felt the final assignment was out of tone with the in-course assignments

By hadry y

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Jan 24, 2024

Amazing course. very helpful. Use 1.5x in video speed and would be great.

By Noah M

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May 10, 2020

Good introduction to SQL syntax. Felt more comfortable after this course.

By pittinan p

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Mar 31, 2019

This course teach me how to code SQL in order to query the data you want.

By Abhishek S

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Jul 11, 2022

good understanding of the basics. and very well designed peer assignment

By Syead A

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Jun 21, 2020

Nice course which will give a good understanding about SQL from basics..

By Russell F

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Apr 15, 2020

Good not great. Definitely helped me grasp core concepts of SQL queries.

By Yuval Z

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Feb 3, 2018

the course is great but the final assignment is annoying and not serious

By Htoo K

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Oct 6, 2024

It's really great course. I can learn a lot of things from this course.

By CARLOS H S C

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Mar 6, 2024

final part assigment is not in the correct order. please check. Thanks!

By Kenneth L

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Aug 28, 2023

Easy to understand for beginners who don't have programming experience.

By Siying W

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Jan 19, 2022

The course is systematic and provide good guidance to SQL step by step.

By Anurag S

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Apr 4, 2020

Course is great but more time needs to be dedicated to the coding part.

By Michael f

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Jan 10, 2018

Basic overview of SQL querying - not necessarily data science specific.

By Enes T

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Jul 17, 2023

If there are more practical applications then this course will be best

By lucas f

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May 21, 2022

Interesting course to introduce someone in the data science enviroment

By Tuvi W

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Feb 7, 2022

Good in many ways, particularly as a review, but in many ways lacking.

By Haritha R

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Dec 16, 2021

Can give more examples while taking the course.It was great otherwise!