SQL for Data Scientists : a beginner's guide for building datasets for analysis / Renee Teate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RENÉE M. P. TEATE is the Director of Data Science at HelioCampus, a higher ed tech startup based in the Washington, DC area. She prepares datasets with SQL, develops predictive models with Python, and designs interactive dashboards in Tableau for university decision-makers. She created the “Becoming a Data Scientist” podcast, helped build the data science learning community on Twitter, and is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences.

SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis is a resource that’s dedicated to the Structured Query Language (SQL) and dataset design skills that data scientists use most. Aspiring data scientists will learn how to how to construct datasets for exploration, analysis, and machine learning. You can also discover how to approach query design and develop SQL code to extract data insights while avoiding common pitfalls.

You may be one of many people who are entering the field of Data Science from a range of professions and educational backgrounds, such as business analytics, social science, physics, economics, and computer science. Like many of them, you may have conducted analyses using spreadsheets as data sources, but never retrieved and engineered datasets from a relational database using SQL, which is a programming language designed for managing databases and extracting data.

This guide for data scientists differs from other instructional guides on the subject. It doesn’t cover SQL broadly. Instead, you’ll learn the subset of SQL skills that data analysts and data scientists use frequently. You’ll also gain practical advice and direction on "how to think about constructing your dataset."