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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

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.

KF

Apr 1, 2023

I loved the practices. I learned alot But I think some of them had mistakes... The online visual studio code never worked for me! It might be good to make a video that explains how to work with it.

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By Shervin L D

Dec 19, 2019

Worst MOOC I fell across on web. Lot's of bugs in the assessment, lot's of incompleteness, teacher does not go deep in subjects, ends with a peer review letting you no guarantee it will ever be review, certainly not within the Free Week. I feel like I lost a lot's more time then I should have for the content I learned, overall very frustrating experience.

By V P

Jan 24, 2021

It's so hard, not enough examples to refer to when doing quiz. You should provide a variety of examples prior, similar to what you will ask in the quizzes. For someone like me, new to coding, it's very hard to remember how to respond to similar questions by the examples. People need to get familiar with the examples first, then move on to something new.

By Eric F

Oct 6, 2024

Need better instructions for final project, especially loading the cvs portion. I kept getting weird results when loading and having to spend alot of time of troubleshooting. Like how can a integer datatype end up with a comma in it, that made no sense. You should have provided step by step instructions with screenshots using DBeaver.

By Noemi A

Dec 27, 2020

To be honest, i don't think this is for beginners.

Many things you need to find our for yourself and as per today, i don't know which tool to use for doing the queries? How to make the tool go and take the data for the spread sheets? This is basic.. so now i know the queries but i don't know where to use it.... Did i miss something?

By Wayne b

Aug 23, 2023

I honestly am very disappointed with this course, no live coding in action just lectures and slides.

I shall stick to Udemy and Data camp as they show the instructors writing the code live as they teach it in some editor such as MYSQL or PostgreSQL.

Instructor is great at explaining but no live video showing them writing the code.

By Diana V

Jan 17, 2025

The information is great, however the lack of 'Real life' examples is extremely frustrating. How do you expect us to actually understand what you are saying without providing the data base and follow you? Tbh, showing a syntax without the data, is absolutely a waste of time because we don't get to see the final result. Terrible

By Nicolás S V

Mar 4, 2018

Interesting course, it made me remember some things I learnt in college. Final assignment is too bad, simple queries for getting the info we are being asked to look, repetitive code to be implemented, a lot of ambiguity in the description of some points. I would call this course "SQL for newbies", or "First approach to SQL".

By Jean-Philippe M

Jun 1, 2020

The course compared to other data science or programming classes I took was not effective in demonstrating how to use in a practical way the foundation of sql. No files were provided for exercises, exercises and lecture were read, no documents or link to install sql lite were provided. This is not a professional class.

By David R

Jul 17, 2024

Once I got to Error Codes exercise 2 nothing made sense. Get what from where that doesnt exist. I had to dive into the discussions to only find people like me complaining about how disjointed this all is. This course does not have any continuity between the exercises and what i am seeing in Mode.com

By Bruno L L T M

Jan 5, 2023

Many errors in video and the quizes: the course has never been corrected and will never be, admins doesn't answer on te forum section. The videolections are useless since you can't apply the examples that are being explained and you don't even rhave the dataset necessary to understand the examples

By Anne L

Feb 7, 2025

Warning, the course is ok, minimally interactive, but good with the basics, though if you do not know anything about data analysis there will be a lot that is covered too quickly. The worse part is the final project. Google it - everyone agrees it is poorly constructed, explained and supported.

By Cynthia T

Dec 29, 2021

I do not like this course. I could not even get through the first week of this program. All the instructor is doing is talking through 'her ideas of using SQL' not actually indicating how to perform the actions of doing SQL. I get a much better, interactive experience through LinkedIn Learning.

By Laura H

Jun 16, 2022

This course was not hands-on enough. In my opinion, we should have been practicing each of the techniques as we learned them. Watching a bunch of videos completely misses the mark. It was also difficult to do the assignments without the practical experience.

By H. H S

Nov 23, 2024

The learning material is excellent, but the final assessments seem broken. Lots of comments on the message board on how it isn't working. No response to these comments. It is like that they created this. It was excellent. Then didn't care to maintain it.

By Somanka P

May 7, 2021

Won't say a bad instructor but this course is surely not for a beginner. What she is doing, is just telling what happens if we use this and that. No practical examples. She is not even defining the technical terminologies. Bad experience

By Juan J S

Sep 22, 2019

Not enough in-course practice and they do not teach you how to install/use SQLite in your computer. I guess this course allows you to speak thoroughly about SQL more than it teaches how to use in real-world scenarios. Needs to improve.

By Faisal B

Feb 6, 2022

The course wastes a lot of time in going over "learning objectives" in each video. There is so much redundancy that the entire first two weeks can be condensed into 1 hour of actual material. I felt that there was a lot of time wasted

By aprilzong

Jul 14, 2021

really going to unsusbcribe from coursera because of this course, Python for everybody was really good, but what the hell is this SQL, the teacher sucks, she just literailly reading her notes instead of teaching. Worst teacher ever!!!

By Dilshard H

Apr 3, 2018

Class work should be similar to the Final Assignment to cultivate thinking. Also, Solutions should be provided so that we can learn from mistakes. Coding for week4 has errors, this should be tested and fixed.

By Cesar S

Oct 14, 2020

This course is very difficult the instructors do not give you any real example and, in each Coding Quizz you have to struggle in your own to approve.

They should check the content and add more real exercises.

By John H

Apr 4, 2023

This is a nice introduction to SQL

But, it had almost nothing about Data Science

The final exercise is graded by "classmates" usually a bad sign. This final exercise was very tedious and needs a lot of work

By Jeroen v S

Aug 14, 2018

Many mistakes in the exercises. Content is so-so, at times it's too easy and at other times it skips over important subjects very quickly. Final assignment very unclear and the data set used is incomplete.

By Sameer A

Jun 6, 2024

This Course is an utter waste of time. Better use Mode.com if you want to learn SQL. The final assignment gave me a headache while trying to setup SQLite on my own computer!! That was totally unnecessary.

By Islam M K

Jun 24, 2019

i don't recommend to take or purchase this course as it have some wrong information which force you to answer the quiz wrong to pass it. also the instructor sound to be not professional in teaching SQL.

By Patrick H

Mar 24, 2021

Horrible. The data is from 2014.... no, no and the tests don't function properly... can't read answer because the screen won't scroll.... Coursera you are better than this outdated piece of trash.