University of Colorado Boulder
Databases for Data Scientists Specialization
University of Colorado Boulder

Databases for Data Scientists Specialization

All about Databases for Data Scientists. Learn to design and create efficient and effective relational databases, fill them with data, and work with them using SQL.

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Di Wu
Alan Paradise

Instructors: Di Wu

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Specialization - 3 course series

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What you'll learn

  • Design effective, efficient databases through normalization and data modeling

  • Develop expertise in programming with the Structured Query Language (“SQL”)

  • Knowledge about database operations, data warehouse, big data, and NoSQL

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Specialization - 3 course series

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Beginner level

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Specialization - 3 course series

Relational Database Design

Course 134 hours4.6 (169 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Create Entity Relationship Models and Entity Relationship Diagrams

  • Create Relational Models

  • Normalize a Relational Model to 3NF

Skills you'll gain

Category: Database (DB) Design
Category: Relational Models
Category: Entity–Relationship (E-R) Model
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: Normalization

The Structured Query Language (SQL)

Course 226 hours4.7 (593 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • The origins and historical basis for SQL

  • Standard SQL use and syntax

  • How to code SQL queries in order to analyze data stored in relational databases

Skills you'll gain

Category: Database Application
Category: Data Science
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: database administration
Category: SQL (Structured Query Language)

What you'll learn

  • In-depth and advanced areas of database technologies

  • The future of database software and where the industry is heading

  • Understand and differentiate four leading NoSQL implementations: MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Neo4j.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Big Data
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: database administration
Category: NoSQL

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Di Wu
University of Colorado Boulder
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