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SQL for Data Analytics - Third Edition

By : Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston
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SQL for Data Analytics - Third Edition

By: Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston

Overview of this book

Every day, businesses operate around the clock, and a huge amount of data is generated at a rapid pace. This book helps you analyze this data and identify key patterns and behaviors that can help you and your business understand your customers at a deep, fundamental level. SQL for Data Analytics, Third Edition is a great way to get started with data analysis, showing how to effectively sort and process information from raw data, even without any prior experience. You will begin by learning how to form hypotheses and generate descriptive statistics that can provide key insights into your existing data. As you progress, you will learn how to write SQL queries to aggregate, calculate, and combine SQL data from sources outside of your current dataset. You will also discover how to work with advanced data types, like JSON. By exploring advanced techniques, such as geospatial analysis and text analysis, you will be able to understand your business at a deeper level. Finally, the book lets you in on the secret to getting information faster and more effectively by using advanced techniques like profiling and automation. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in the efficient application of SQL techniques in everyday business scenarios and looking at data with the critical eye of analytics professional.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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9. Using SQL to Uncover the Truth: A Case Study

SQL and Analytics

Throughout this chapter, you have learned about different techniques used in data analytics. All these analytics techniques inevitably lead to the storage and processing of massive data. While there are many tools in today's market that can help you with these tasks, a relational database is the most important one.

A relational database is a convenient and easy-to-understand way to store datasets. Modern relational database management systems, such as PostgreSQL databases, also provide a powerful tool for processing and analyzing data, which is SQL. Using SQL, you can clean data, transform data into more useful formats, and analyze data with statistics to find interesting patterns. The rest of this book will be dedicated to understanding how you can use SQL for these purposes productively and efficiently.