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Learner Reviews & Feedback for SQL for Data Science by University of California, Davis

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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!!

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 cosmin c

Jul 4, 2020

The materials are ok, the presenter although could've read his stuff in advance as she keeps stuttering.

By Yağız O

Oct 14, 2019

Providing more links for exercises would be really beneficial for those who wants to master the concept.

By Prashant K

Sep 24, 2019

More questions can be added in quizes. Quiz every week could be divided in simple, medium and hard quiz.

By Luo Y

Mar 7, 2018

It is a useful sql course. But I did not see much connection between sql and data science in the course.

By Jose R O Z

Nov 25, 2023

Me gustaría mas que en los ejemplos de los comandos dieran los resultados que salen de esas secuencias.

By Satria H P

Apr 21, 2023

Very good content. I just wished Sadie taught me more advance concept and usage.. not just basic syntax

By Pinar T

Jul 4, 2022

This is good for beginners but I feel like it's missing a lot of function necessary to fully learn SQL.

By Conrado F M F

Feb 4, 2022

Good course in theory but missing some excercises, I highly recommend w3recourses for practicing SQLite

By Ankit K

May 26, 2020

It was awesome. But please do add the pdfs in Resources, it will be quite helpful when referencing back

By Denis S

May 3, 2020

Overall, a great course. However, there are not many quizzes for practice and tasks for coding practice

By Semih Ö

Jan 6, 2019

Nice course for starters, but it would be much better if there were more exercises, and given datasets.

By Ralf K

Nov 21, 2023

Easy to follow up, it got difficult on some exercises., therefore more guided exercises would be great

By Bo L

Jul 26, 2022

the peer review assignment on Yelp dataset analysis is really helpful. I feel I learned a lot from it

By Bhuvan S M

Jan 25, 2022

Mentor interaction could be more better in discussion forum. Otherwise love the content of the course.

By Pongsasit T

Sep 17, 2019

good video and coding practice. But this course will be 5 star if have more coding practice. Thank you

By Alex

Mar 30, 2019

Need more practice for complex coding. The coding assignment, except to the yelp case, are too simple.

By Bhairavi P

Sep 12, 2020

It was fun learning a new language and very well covered with examples of the format on the queries.

By Abhishek K M

May 26, 2020

very well explained. Instructor is good .everyone aspiring to learn sql,must study this course first.

By Keshavaraya N

May 13, 2020

great start for begginers, well explained and well organized.

loved thw practice excercises in the end

By Shubham R

Jan 31, 2018

Really a good course for a beginner who wants to establish basic foundation on sql . Thanks to sadie.

By Juan D G B

Jun 24, 2022

good course, the only thing left to do is practice while the theory is being explained in the videos

By Manish N

Sep 4, 2020

more practicals to explain the concept will be better rather than theory. please add more practicals

By Apeksha B

Jul 5, 2020

Really nice course. Concepts are very nicely explained. Love the lecture delivery of the Instructor!

By Pulkit G

Sep 28, 2019

The Course should be in more detailed as few topics are too hard to understand in 4-5 minutes video.

By Sebastian R B

Feb 6, 2021

Great class for SQL beginners. Good option if you want to learn more about the data science world.