Sadie St. Lawrence
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 …
Instructor Details
Courses : 1
Specification: SQL for Data Science
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114 reviews for SQL for Data Science
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| Price | Free |
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| Provider | |
| Duration | 20 hours |
| Year | 2017 |
| Level | Beginner |
| Language | English |
| Certificate | Yes |
| Quizzes | Yes |
Yusheng F –
Great course
Milos B –
Nice introduction to SQL
Angelos S –
It is a well structured and detailed course in terms of data analysis, SQL principles and differences between relational models (ER) and NoSQL. The difficulty level is between novice and intermediate and the instructor is very helpful and analytical. Overall recommended.
JONATHAN A G –
Excelent course with a very good content an a great instructor.
vijay k d –
DO Slowly, Build up. This is a wonderful course and you will not know when you have learnt so many things. The instructor is wonderful she explains things nicely. The people who have designed the course must be working professionals because Of their depth of understanding of the subject and knowledge. The most interesting thing about the course is you will learn a few things in a module then try your hands on. you don’t even need a laptop to code because they have integrated everything on the Coursera’s platform. I have watched most of the videos on my smart phone and submitted a few assignments too. and the last part of the journey through this course for me is realization. You solve the questions given in the peer graded assignment specially part 2 and for a person who Has been listening the terms like PREDICTION, SENTIMENT ANALYSIS kind of stuff , Learning a few lines of codes in SQL from this course has actually let me do them. Wonderful course Amazing team Thanks Coursera Thanks Sadie St Lawrence
Yiwei Z –
Like the prof really much
Daniel E –
Good content but the questions are badly worded and need updating.
Arman P –
I learned aloooooot!
Anna G –
Some slides are wrong. Some info need to be updated. Some Q/A are just based on EXACTLY what the instructor said.
Iraj K F –
A great course. Fantastic teaching
Shalabh s –
Really a great and happy learning here.
Cristina R –
This course gives a really good introduction to SQL, no pre knowledge needed and it feels like the level reached at completion of the course is very satisfying for a 4 weeks program. The final assignment is a bit confusing and could be improved, but the lecture videos and practice quiz at the end of each module are very well done.
Chris W –
Great introduction to SQL and its use in Data Science. Some great practical applications from someone that uses it on a daily basis. I would definitely recommend.
Tina M –
This was a great course, it provided me with great examples not just in the Instructor notes but in the side reading material that I have taken and created a review reference folder for future review. This is a great class and and I am glad it is apart of the program.
NIKITA G –
This course helped me get confidence in my SQL skills.
Hassan S –
This course is very important as a beginner and the instructor teaching style is easily understandable.Thanks for coursera for giving me opportunity to learn.
Sebastian K –
Very helpful in covering the basics of SQL.
Johanna P –
This class has already paid for itself. I have used what I learned to write SQL reports to pull reports from our test database. I look forward to taking more classes in SQL Data Science.
Marcelo F –
This was an excellent course for someone who wishes to either brush up or pick up SQL/SQLite
Zhiyuan H –
This course was somewhat slow and theoretical in the first week, but starting from the second week, it became intensive and progressive. The final homework was extremely well designed, and it took a good amount of time for you to finish the test.
MaryAlyce S –
Sadie is a great teacher. This course is strong on theory. I would have liked to have had direct access to the data sets that I could use with other SQL tools but did not find this limiting in learning what was taught. A good foundation.
Sharath K –
Good exposure to SQL
Essaid D –
EXCELLENT
Prabesh D –
As someone who’s completely new to SQL, I learned a lot. However, Week 3’s content on Subqueries could have been better explained. Overall, I recommend you the course if you are new to SQL like me. If you know a bit already, this might be too easy for you.
Asitha L K D M –
Wow!! A nice course for beginners.
Sidharth S –
Very well explained course. Instructor was friendly, and explained the basics clearly.
Gurleen K –
nice
Javier G –
Very useful course. The videos are short so they don’t need much effort to finish. They are easy to understand and well explained. The girl talks very fluency and slowly so it’s easy to understand and also she is pretty so it’s nice to see.
Craig A B –
Good lectures. The final project has some problematic wording.
SAMEER S T –
very good learning method …really help alot
Anna R –
Super useful course. One week and you know basics!
Robert B –
This was a really great course that provided good instructional material, opportunities and recommendations of additional research, and good hands on exercises. First Coursera course for me and I would certainly recommend this to others.
TIYYAGURA T V K –
Excellent Course! Nice Quizzes and Assignments.
Jaffet R R –
Me siento muy afortunado de haber participado en este curso. Conciso, introductorio, bien disenado y muy bien explicado.
Javier F S –
AMAZING!!
Bheemanapalli D –
best way to improve your technical skills
Shiva –
Great… asignments were good
Pooja P –
The course helped me understand the basic concepts in SQL which are required to be a good data scientist. Thank you Team.
Saqib K –
nice course
Christian P –
I enjoyed the course. Well structured, good questions to check knowledge within courses/videos. I felt my experience in R definitely helped me understand this better, but I believe that the class structure absolutely helped me get the basics of SQL code.
Deleted A –
Great Tutorials absolutely!
Noureddine E –
Great course for beginners with an awesome instructor.
Naeem S –
Amazing content, Amazing teacher. Learned core concepts that are helpful with real world examples.
YOGENDRA S K A –
The course is very helpful.
Liu –
This is a very helpful and well designed data course. I love the way the teacher teach me knowledge about SQL. I highly recommend this course for anyone who is interested in data science.
Rahul M –
it is a great subject and great Instructor .thank you for learning concepts of sql.
Nina L –
Not very informative, and the final assignment marks scheme was awful
Tyler G –
Poorly taught, poorly presented. Course materials had too many grammar mistakes and typos; lesson content insufficiently practiced in assignments, some not used at all; subject matter often barely explained, and no consideration given for complexity of topics all described at same pace, with same scant amount of examples; production rushed and lazy: instructor clearly filmed lectures without sufficient practice frequent verbal gaffes that could/should have been edited out or avoided in multiple takes.
Kuzmin A –
Easy to understand. Exelellent course for newbie
Amber L –
The course was informative and well structured. However, I wish the course had more example problems in the lecture videos. I also wish the lecture sides showed the results of each query instead of just listing out the query. Overall, I feel like I had a good overview of SQL and some rudimentary knowledge on utilizing SQL.
Giulia T –
The course vidoes were really nice. The wording of the exercises is frequently confusing, especially in the peer reviewed assignment. Many question cannot be answered with the tools provided (i.e. inference, correlation).
Orzumand K –
The course is very good for beginners but you need to do your own homework. No actual coding was practiced in this course so I had to learn it on my own. Also, got very confused with understanding RDBMS and differences between SQL/SQL lite and etc. Overall, course was informative and helpful in learning SQL.
Guillermo S –
Loved it! But sometimes they used terms that are not explained before and there are small and few mistakes in the videos.
RAJESH K Y –
excellent work by faculty
Adetunji A –
Really explains the basics of sql query
Paul M –
I wish there were more practice exercises in between the videos. It would also be more helpful if there were more visuals/animations to accompany the lessons.
Kelly L –
Great course. Plan to continue learning sql
Arseniy T –
Great course for the beginner or as a refresher for somebody who used SQL a long time ago. The final assignment was very interesting to work on. Good job on the material.
Bjorn J –
I really learned a lot in a short time. This course is a great start if one wants to learn SQL. I can absolutly recommend this course!
In S Z –
Excellent starting course for SQL data science. Looking for spark distributed computing and more advanced techniques to be taught and acquired through time and efforts.
Bussaba R –
Easy to understand and is a good for further development
qizhou c –
Too hard
Roger D C S –
Great course and experience. Suitable for all levels where content can be applied immediately Highly recommended!
Piyachart C –
Good for gain experience in Business Problem
Jennifer M –
Great class for a beginner with no SQL experience. I had already taken another SQL for beginners online class but got MUCH more out of this one. The instructor did a great job with starting with the basics and building upon them.
Diego R G –
I took another Data Science course from Michigan and it was horrible! I was concerned about going into this course, but it completely regained my faith in MOOCs and Coursera in general. This is a great course without question. Take your time on each assignment and you will learn a lot!
Shuya Z –
It is indeed very helpful.
Heiko K –
The course is overall very high in quality and I found it really useful. The teacher explains the concepts really well and the exercises are very good. I really found joy doing the final course assignment. However, I feel that I got tricked into paying one more month of subscription, seconds after I paid for another month, I did receive the course certificate. I submitted the peer graded assignment one week ago. My plan was to continue with the other courses in this specialisation but after my experience with this subscription/payment philosophy, I will not discontinue and look for other online platforms with a better customer experience for me. Thank you nonetheless for the high quality of this course, I am certain many learners find the material extremely helpful, as did I.
Hadar S –
This course helped me refresh my SQL knowledge and get me ready for some Job interviews, Sadie is a very good professor and the practice quizzes are great. Thank you!
Alejandro V –
excellent course i learned a lot
Nurlan G –
Great Course ! for learning Data Science , I think it will help to developing your knowledge !
Eike V –
Overall this course is quite good to get a first understanding of SQL. Although i missed some more explanations or examples for complex data analysis.
Livesh G –
Great course for a first venture into sql and the focus is placed on how its relevant to data sicentista
Annie L –
Very well taught. This is a good intro for learning SQL and I had fun doing the assignments.
Rafael T M –
Muy buen curso para empezar a tocar SQL. Tanto las pruebas intermedias como la final te ponen contra las cuerdas y te obliga a utilizar casi todo lo aprendido. Si no has programado nunca o empezaste y lo dejaste te aconsejo tener algo de paciencia para completarlo. Entender cada video y cada paso que das. Sin lugar a dudas escogere el siguiente curso.
Phattranit M –
The assignments in this course make me understand SQL perfectly
Wendy W –
The lecture videos covered the topics in a very general way and gave examples of the code. However, I found there were not enough coding exercises to cover all the functions learned. In addition, I learnt the syntax and how to use the different functions mostly through my own research using external tutorial web sites. The lectures served more as an outline of topics rather than as a stand alone learning tool. I was fine with this as I like learning independently but there could be more of a practical element to the course. The final assignment wording ought to be reviewed by the course co ordinator rather urgently as a number of the questions were unclear and ambiguous as to what was required. The marking scheme also does not allow differentiation between good answers utilising good coding versus inelegant coding / passable code that could be better. Overall, a useful introduction to SQL and I felt like I got a good overview but lacking in technical practice.
OGALA W I –
This is the first course that I have taken in SQL, I must say that it is really a good course to start with. Highly recommended for a starter in SQL.
Alexander B –
Overall rating: The course itself was really good for beginners. I really like SQL Pro: You get a lot of information and it has a clear structure. There are nice examples and you can train enough. The rate of speaking of the teacher was perfect for me. A very good thing was that the questions of the exam fit perfectly well to the information we were taught in the classes. Contra: What i did not like is, that even though you get clear instructions how to write and structure your code, the teacher did not stick to the rules all the time or structured the code in a way, which was not mentioned before. The reason why i only give 3 stars to this course is that the final assignment was the worst thing i ever experienced in a course. The instructions very totally unclear a lot of times and I had to search the discussion forum to find out what the questions are about. They could be interpreted in many different ways. Additionally, sometimes specific things were asked for like correlation, which is simply not possible if you take the question seriously. This would be a complicated formula, but the real intention of the question was to check it roughly by eye. But you can not tell what the intention is before you know the result and so it took me a lot of time to find out what the intention of several questions was. According to the discussion forum this problem is know for several years now. So enough time to fix it. Therefore i took two stars from the course.
Abhishek N –
Pretty helpful for a beginner, The course is designed pretty well.
Neeli K –
Not enough examples were shared. Certain concepts were explained without telling their underlying basics.
Michelle O –
Awesome course, learned a lot in a short period of time. The information really stuck and the quizzes/tests got to the core of the content. Would definitely recommend.
Cara M –
I enjoyed the course and definitely know and understand SQL statements now. In the future, it would be helpful to provide additional tips on where to practice your SQL statements to help those of us who need that extra help. The instructor was very clear in the videos which made it easy to follow. Thanks for a great course!
Thirumala H –
actually the course is good for beginner
Thakkar S H –
One of the best instructor. Just made understand SQL inside out. Must take the course to understand all topics.
Polina M –
Good information, perfect for newbies!
Murilo R –
Fantastic course.
Velaga V K –
Very Nice getting through this course and very helpfull !
Prashanna G –
Good course for anyone starting to learn SQL but the course needs more assignments to ensure that the learners have got a good understanding of the concepts. Also, the final project is a bit overwhelming to do without prior experience in SQL.
Olfa H –
Very well structured course, clear and right to the point useful content. Thank you
Navil S –
Great Beginner course. Highly Recommend.
Allu B S S –
Really loved the course..very helpful!
Scott W W –
Excellent pace, and very thoughtful questions/ practice problems for us to work on.
Vusala E –
Thank you! It was really practical and understandable
Jason W W –
Solid start.
Masood A –
Course is little lengthy, More information is required about the assignment
Nouer U –
Great course
Talley L –
Easy to follow, very informative, and the quizzes line up with and reinforce what is learned.
VINAYAK G –
The lectures videos are the right size. Assignments are too simple at times. Final peer review assignment was decent difficulty and allows for a lot of involvement; it also introduces you to data analysis in a structured manner. Liked the course very much. I’d recommend it to beginners in SQL and/or data science.
Masood A –
Course is little lengthy, More information is required about the assignment
Saqib K –
nice course
Riccardo B –
too much theory, I needed something more ‘pratical’ that allowed me to start using and write code and not see a lot of slide with code
Sunil C –
Easy pace course, good video tutorial but you also need to do learning from other available resources in order to fully understand the concept. I am glad I enrolled and learned the SQL. Thank you very much, looking forward for another course.
Monika S M –
Fine to learn
oleg y –
Great course, i learnt a lot of interesting stuff and skills
David S –
excellent course for a begginer.
Litan S –
Just stunning
Sebastian V m –
the best way to learn sql
Rama –
This course introduced why SQL is a fundamental skill worth learning. Step by step tutorials helps to learn quickly through each exercise. I would certainly take more online courses from this teacher Sadie. Thank you Sadie!
Luis E F P –
I think the course is a very good overall complement while learning SQL, one thing I would like to see it some type of a live coding real problems.
Sridhar V –
This course was a very good introduction to SQL
Gaurav P –
After the 2nd week, the instructor just introduces new concepts and does not explain the working of the algorithm. Also, more or less the video length should increase and more examples should be discussed. Overall the course is great !!!!
Dessy A –
it is a good course. start it now don’t hesitate
Sabarish A –
Would have loved to see more live videos of how to do stuff. There could have also been an SQL initial setup tutorials in the system which would have been more beneficial on how to setup a relational database. But, I was able to learn the basics of SQL and how it works overall.