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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!!

NK

Oct 5, 2022

Amazing course for beginners! The entire course is well structured and has good hands-on assignments. SQL is extremely essential for Database management and fun learning so please do try this one out!

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By Raylia G

Jul 28, 2018

The course is great! I love the data scientist role play part, make me feel like I can apply what I learned here into real world business.

By Eyal L

Jul 17, 2023

Most of the videos are very understandable. Some show only the query without the output which make it more complicated. Great outsources.

By Melisa C

May 24, 2021

Dr. Sadie is amazing at explaining. I learned a lot. One big plus is that the course has practical excercises that help you learn. great.

By Kazi J R

May 6, 2021

This is the best course for beginners in learning SQL. I have learned to extract data for my needs by optimizing queries. Happy Learning.

By Asmahanim B A

Jan 3, 2021

it is a great course. A good course for beginner to SQL. It is easily understood and I think it is going to help more in my working life.

By HARSH K S

May 25, 2020

Amazing experience. The lecture was the best and present in a very lucid manner.

The community for Discussion was also helpful and active.

By Suyash A

Oct 4, 2019

The course is simple and to the point, it teaches you the basics of data analysis as well how you can start thinking as a Data scientist.

By MUHAMMAD A

May 5, 2019

I like the way course is organized and delivered. Easy to grasp the concepts and particularly I love playing with the Practice Exercises.

By Di H

Jul 14, 2018

The course teaches basic concepts which help understand fundamental questions like: what is SQL? why do we use it? what do we use it for?

By Jacob J F

Feb 5, 2022

At times I think some concepts could have been explained a bit more thoroughly, but overall, this was a great couse and I learned a lot!

By Mahesh P

Jan 22, 2022

Get video Series to start with SQL. Really very much beginner freindly. Liked the content and also learnt alot from the content provided

By Samir T

Jul 6, 2021

I loved this course. It was easy to follow and the tests and project made it so much better to learn SQL. I highly recommend this class!

By Jonas A

Mar 26, 2021

The course has well-designed content and great delivery that helps users who are new to coding become proficient. It's been very helpful

By TSANG C Y

Feb 24, 2021

This course have provided fundamental knowledge on SQL and the application and difference between SQL and different programming language

By Robert K

Oct 22, 2020

Great course, the multiple choice and coding questions really test you thoroughly, final portion allows you to be a little creative too.

By Apurva G

Oct 11, 2020

This course is very sharp and precise and structured for the need of Data scientist. Pretty much liked the content. Found it very useful

By Karan A

Oct 29, 2019

Its a good course to get the basics of SQL right. I liked the final assignment of analyzing a data set and providing our analysis on it.

By GOLI T S

Jun 10, 2021

This course is soo good. Sadie. St. Lawrence mam explanation is very good. I had started learning SQLite . This is my first SQL course.

By Luis A

Feb 6, 2021

I really enjoy taking this course. I already new a lot of stuff, but it is always good remebering and dig more for knowledge. Thank you

By Judy W

Dec 28, 2020

I think the provided database and coding system is very easy to use. and the final project "yelp"database is a great real-life practice

By Phát P T H

Nov 9, 2022

The knowledge is very useful and easy for the newbie to follow. It is my fortune to find out about this course and learn it carefully.

By Lucas H

Jun 21, 2022

Very informative and I learned a lot. The practice quizzes really helped me understand the material in time for the final assignment.

By rachel n

Nov 15, 2021

Sadie does an excellent job at presenting the information at hand and providing examples and tools to solve the tasks and assignments.

By Duaa M A H

Dec 7, 2020

Thank you very much for this amazing course!

I've learnt so much from it and it would really help me with my work in database testing.

By Afonso M

Jun 15, 2020

Very good for getting you from 0 to a sufficently good level of SQL. A great building block to becoming very good and coding with SQL.