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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

SM

Mar 15, 2020

Good course for beginners.- classes are fine- quizzes evaluate quite well your understanding I think- the final assessment contains plenty of VERY ambiguous questions and I think it should be reworked

MV

Jul 19, 2020

Please Included examples while the instructor is teaching in the video lectures. The instructor is very talented in teaching but due to lack of examples in the video it downgrades the overall course.

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By Namita B J

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Jun 9, 2020

This Course is very nice and sessions are very informative.

By Ronit G

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Aug 19, 2022

More modules should be included on handling date time data

By andrea y

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Oct 25, 2021

very good overall! but id' have appreciated mores example

By Kasturi U

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Sep 1, 2021

Very informative, and covered mostly all important topics.

By Hnin H W

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Jul 29, 2020

It is a great first step for people who start learning SQL

By Gaurav R

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Jun 4, 2020

Cource was good and provides platform for handson parctice

By Juergen S

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Aug 8, 2025

Very good structured, I can this course propose to others

By Minal A

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Mar 25, 2021

Its a good course for someone who doesn't know SQL at all

By Francis M

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Dec 8, 2019

it has really opened my eyes in the field of Data science

By Vigneshwara S

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Nov 13, 2018

Need More Informations on Data Grouping with llarger data

By XTAN15

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Jul 17, 2018

The wording of the quiz and projects needs to be improved

By RAMAN K R R

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Aug 21, 2023

good course i have learned some useful things ,iam happy

By Luna

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Jan 11, 2022

Learn many sql commands which are useful for my career!

By Ana R

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Jan 26, 2021

Excellent course , glad all our classmates work together

By Rizky K

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Jul 27, 2020

Thank your Coursera, it's really useful and informative!

By Uday T

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Apr 1, 2020

SQL exercises could have been better, Teaching was good!

By Dileep K

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May 16, 2019

I really thank full, It was great learning experience...

By Bako T

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Sep 3, 2020

Should include more exercises but good in overall sense

By sivamohan r

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Mar 17, 2020

sql is best language for improve your technical skills

By Kevin H

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Feb 5, 2022

I enjoyed the course, particularly the analysis part.

By Deenadayalan P

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Aug 15, 2020

Nice course for beginners.learnt a lot.it is also fun

By HUGO G M R

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Mar 30, 2021

the final work was quite hard respect to the classes

By Steve P

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Jan 30, 2021

Need opportunities to practice throughout the course

By WalterHu

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Nov 10, 2020

Would be better if final examination is more strict.

By Felix M R

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Oct 6, 2022

Nice course, the assignment at the end is not great