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SQL for Data Analytics. Harness the power of SQL to extract insights from data - Third Edition

SQL for Data Analytics. Harness the power of SQL to extract insights from data - Third Edition

Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston

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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. 
  • 1. Understanding and Describing Data
  • 2. The Basics of SQL for Analytics
  • 3. SQL for Data Preparation
  • 4. Aggregate Functions for Data Analysis
  • 5. Window Functions for Data Analysis
  • 6. Importing and Exporting Data
  • 7. Analytics Using Complex Data Types
  • 8. Performant SQL
  • 9. Using SQL to Uncover the Truth – a Case Study
  • Title: SQL for Data Analytics. Harness the power of SQL to extract insights from data - Third Edition
  • Author: Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston
  • Original title: SQL for Data Analytics. Harness the power of SQL to extract insights from data - Third Edition
  • ISBN: 9781801817806, 9781801817806
  • Date of issue: 2022-08-29
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_39z6
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing