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SQL for Data Analytics. - Third Edition

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

By: Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik

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

Case Study

Throughout this chapter, you will work on a case study. The new ZoomZoom Bat Scooter is now available for sale exclusively through its website. Sales are looking good, but suddenly, preorders start plunging by 20% after a couple of weeks. What is going on? As the best data analyst at ZoomZoom, you have been assigned to figure this out.

The Scientific Method

In this case study, you will be following the scientific method to solve the problem. Here, you will test guesses (or hypotheses) using objectively collected data. The scientific method can be decomposed into the following key steps:

  1. Define the question to answer, which in this case is what caused the drop in sales of the Bat Scooter after approximately 2 weeks.
  2. Perform complete background research to gather sufficient information to propose an initial hypothesis for the event or phenomenon.
  3. Construct a hypothesis to explain the event or answer the question.
  4. Define and execute an objective experiment...