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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

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.

JG

Aug 22, 2021

I thought this course was great! Great introduction to Relational Databases and SQLite. Highly reccomend for anyone new to SQL, Databases, or someone looking to get started with a data science career.

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By Oleg V

Feb 14, 2023

It is awesome course that helped me to fill all my knowledge gaps. Quite challenging assignments.. especially the last one. Being a backend software engineer I highly recommend this course for all backend dev beginners.

By Sarah J S

Nov 5, 2019

This was a really solid class to understand and apply basic concepts. It requires that you put some work in, especially if you're less familiar with SQL, but it has been useful to me already in refining some of my coding.

By Maria A G A

Oct 26, 2022

Muy bien explicado. Importante la explicación del por qué de las cosas y de la importancia de las mismas. Problemas que antes no podía realizar ahora si. La manera de corregirnos el trabajo final estuvo muy interesante.

By Dikshant l

Mar 4, 2019

A really good course. They have covered all the details starting from the basics and made sure you have understood everything through quizes. The quizes are also great and cover all the concepts taught during the videos

By Christopher L

Aug 7, 2023

Solid foundation of skills for using SQL as data scientist. Covered a large range of SQL functionalities and Sadie gave a really learning pace. I would recommend this course to anyone starting out on their SQL journey.

By Amin K

Aug 4, 2021

It was nice to study such course which will helpful for data science journey, It helped me a lot to clear the concept of SQL. I appreciate the work of instructor Ms. Sadie St. Lawrence with her through knowledge in SQL.

By Shahryar S

Nov 10, 2020

It was a great experience to have a course. It was my first ever course as Online. I am thinking that the journey has started and it will never end. I also have selected the next course that I will complete in the next.

By MANIMARAN V

Nov 7, 2020

Excellent...! The Course was very well taught by the Lecturer Sadie St,Lawrence. Its easy to understand if we just listen to her carefully apart from reading from the notes. Thank you very much madam :)

By Karthikeyan A

May 30, 2022

Very clear and concise professor! Seemed very passionate about data science! The content was very interesting. This was in fact my first course on Coursera. I recommend this course to anyone interested in data science.

By George P

Mar 15, 2022

Great course, I thoroughly enjoyed it! The videos are crisp and to the point. The assignments are challenging which is good because at the end of the course you would get pretty comfirtable using SQL for data analysis.

By Adriana M Z

Sep 10, 2021

Very good! In my case I was polishing my SQL skills learned a couple of years ago! It was pretty easy to rember things, and the instructor is perfect! She makes you be engage all the time. Also, the practice is good :P

By Jessica R

Jun 4, 2018

This course is excellent! I loved that I could test queries and be creative. I really got to learn what I could (and couldn’t) do with sql. I definitely feel more confident with putting SQL as a skill on my resume now.

By Ye x

Oct 7, 2021

This course is very suitable for novices to get started, step by step, from the shallower to the deeper, and the course supporting exercises and homework are also great! The course time is also reasonable! Super cool!

By Evgeniya S

Sep 12, 2018

That's a great beginners guide in SQL. What I like about this course is that there's plenty of practice exercises to master your newly acquired knowledge. Highly recommended for those who want to start exploring SQL.

By Karina S

Aug 5, 2019

Great course on the fundamentals of SQL for data analysis. I particularly enjoyed the last assignment. I feel that I have learned a lot (though I also needed to complement it with other SQL courses). Thank you Sadie!

By Sebastián P

Jan 8, 2023

Amazing course!

However, I felt that it could be improved by placing after each lesson some exercises related to the concept just taught, instead of teaching lots of concepts and then assessing them at the same time.

By Dorys Y C S

Jun 29, 2020

This course was excellent for me, learned small things that I did not know existed but that are so powerful when making the querys. Help me optimize the queries, and I will follow the advice: "think before writing"

By Gisella B

Apr 3, 2020

I liked this course a lot. Sadie explains well and the amount of exercises from easy to less easy and more difficult, makes you practice and internalize the concepts. Although more practicing is required of course.

By Sarah P

Mar 25, 2019

This is a great course for those without any prior programming SQL knowledge. It helps if you already have experience working with datasets and if you already know how to program in another language (i.e. SAS, R).

By vivek

Sep 9, 2018

I find this course very helpful, prior to this course I used to think its just a language to query the data from Data base but now I have realized its importance after seeing how it can be helpful for data science.

By Jesse W

Jul 29, 2022

Great course! I had a really good understanding of excel functions and some basic priciples of programing laguages and I found this course really easy to follow. Finished in 4 days and really took a lot from it.

By Steffen S

Nov 12, 2022

Very nice course. If you have programming experience it will probably quite easy. The look of the course is awesome. The mini quizzes are cool. So far one of the loveliest course I did on coursera. Keep it going!

By Safiullah K

Oct 8, 2022

One of the best courses for learning SQL. It could, however be better if they provided access to the database so I could practise on it, but it was still great and I learned the basics of SQL for Data Science.

By Frank F

Jul 13, 2022

Very good intro course to SQL. Enjoyed the instructor's presentation and enthusiasm for SQL. Covers SELECT statement and JOINs plus some common functions MIN, MAX, COUNT, etc. Good baseline for retrieving data.

By Thi T N N

Feb 21, 2021

This course is helpful for beginners in the data science field. Through this course, I have familiarized myself with the SQL language. After this course, I was able to write code for data retrieving and analysis.