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

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16,865 ratings

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, ā€œpart mathematician, part computer
scientist, and part trend spotterā€ (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 databa...
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Top reviews

AL

Aug 21, 2020

A comprehensive course that covers major aspects of query building and retrieval in a management system. The topics were delivered well and the materials/assignments were relevant for skill-building.

AT

Nov 17, 2020

Well it was a short course, the assignments are a little bit repetitive (mostly in the last). The course reviews every 'practical' aspects of SQL, how to assemble the bricks while writing queries,...

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By MartĆ­n M R

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Aug 17, 2020

Some more practice excercises could be useful. The explanations are very good and the pace of the lessons is easy to follow.

By Pradeep Y

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Aug 13, 2020

I like this course , it's cover all the topics with proper assignments that help me to improve my sql skills.

Thanks Coursera

By truthcompels

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Mar 23, 2021

Honestly, wish the course had practice problems. Maybe I'm just new to coursera, had to practice with my own utilities haha

By Nishant P M

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Jun 16, 2020

The course was pretty well compiled and presented. However, would have liked if they had gone more in depth into the topics

By Hector

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May 19, 2019

This is a comprehensive SQL course. It might take a bit more time to complete the assignments than stated by its creators.

By Dane P

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Dec 14, 2018

Mostly good- the week with joins was rough (made too many conceptual leaps, didn't make sense with prior course knowledge).

By Mohammed M S

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Dec 10, 2017

I think you should allow audit people also to look into the quiz results, Its a good course and i really enjoy the learning

By Jeetash R

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Nov 5, 2018

The course is good for Data science. It would good to add more concepts like store procedures, functions and index .. etc

By Derek H

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Feb 8, 2018

A great introduction to aggregating and extracting data from data tables with the data scientist as the intended audience.

By Brian A

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Apr 2, 2024

A great course but more explanations will make it a star course, please expound on your explanations, they are so narrow.

By Angeline M A

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Mar 30, 2023

Course is good but for final assignment, we can get the answers in google. I feel many misuse it to get the certificate.

By Guillermo S

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Feb 14, 2020

Loved it! But sometimes they used terms that are not explained before and there are small and few mistakes in the videos.

By Pooja P

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Jan 25, 2020

The course helped me understand the basic concepts in SQL which are required to be a good data scientist. Thank you Team.

By Stefano M

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Dec 2, 2019

I've learn a lot about retrieving data and writing simple query. Really Useful course to learn how to handle lot of data.

By Dipanjan C

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Nov 10, 2018

More Practice sessions with real world complex SQL queries are requested, to build confidence for interviews and the like

By Cristopher E M M

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Sep 3, 2021

This course is so easy to manage and is complete. If you have some troubles you cand find your answer througth internet.

By Prasad G

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Jul 20, 2020

Great experience! I learnt more about data and how to manage data as well. Yes! It helps m in improve my database skills

By Michael F

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Jul 14, 2021

I must say for a video learning course that wasn't too bad. It videos were not too long or too short for each section.

By Stephen E

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May 1, 2021

There were typos in the final assignment worksheet that made the questions harder to understand than they needed to be.

By Anil K C

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Feb 22, 2022

The test questions are practical and tough that enables to have hands on skill and strong understanding of SQL coding.

By Siddhant S

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Jul 12, 2020

it was well structured but it could have been better. at times i felt i needed more examples. but overall it was good.

By Lynn S

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Dec 30, 2022

Excellent teacher - I thought the interface could be a little confusing at times but I eventually figured it all out.

By Iason B

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Sep 27, 2020

It would be more helpful if there were examples step by step during the courses, so I would do them live in my SQLite

By gabriel c c

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Feb 23, 2023

Seria bueno ejercicios despues de cada video donde enseƱan nuevas funcionalidades del sql y no al final de la semana

By Vipul D

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Jul 13, 2020

Excellent primer course for SQL. While the primary language used is SQLite, it is highly interchangeable with MySQL,