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

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16,926 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, “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 databa...
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Top reviews

AL

Aug 22, 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 2, 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 irfan r b

May 16, 2023

Theoretically it is best program, but for practice and use of chinook was not well explained. I find to complete last assignment very difficult where there was not preparation for such a huge task for a newbie.

By Sung J P

Dec 1, 2021

Course materials are good, but wish they provide the actual SQL code in answers to quizzes and assignments. Simply providing whether my answer is correct or not is not enough for me to know what I did wrong.

By Vinayak D

Apr 27, 2020

course was really good and understandable for some beginner like me but at same time I think that more coding exercises were required

ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR IGNITING THE INTEREST TOWARDS DATA ANALYSIS IN ME

By joe b

Mar 4, 2021

The general structure and idea of the course was good; however, there were many times when the script/questions were worded badly and this was sometimes an issue when it came to understanding the content.

By Vitalii

May 20, 2019

No practice examples at all. Videos have only theorethical queries without results, so you can`t see how it works on practice. Reference to SteckOverFlow is awesome. Why should I pay money for nothing?

By Mra M

Sep 23, 2024

There should be more training questions that are not part of a quiz that helps individuals gain more knowledge. Provide more relevant query examples combining functions such as Aggregate + UPPER CASE

By Jason P

Nov 28, 2022

I thought that the instructor could have gone over the material detail by showing real time examples herself while in SQL. This would have been super helpful. Also, the quizzes were much too difficult

By Bohan P

Jun 13, 2022

Final assignment was confusing. Often what you do in the quizes aren't taught in the course material. Would be better if the course videos had more examples of outputs rather than mostly being theory.

By Burhanuddin S

Apr 16, 2020

Would definitely need to watch Youtube videos to understand the course fully.

Good assignments but the videos are not that great and too much time wasted in learning objectives. Too less examples given

By D H

May 1, 2019

Good program for beginners. Peer review assignment needs to be updated. The assignment is not graded by instructor. Certification means nothing because anyone who pays money will eventually get it.

By Nathan B

Feb 20, 2022

There's a significant amount of hand-holding right up until the final exam which then requires a superior cognitive leap to overcome the far-beyond-beginner questions and reasoning. Caveat Emptor!

By Huong D D N

Aug 8, 2021

Overall, it's a great course to be introduced to SQL without any background knowledge. However, lectures in Week 3 is hard to understand, which I need to seek for other sources to learn on my own.

By Pratyush A

Aug 21, 2020

The course gives us the basics of SQL only wrt Data Science. It does not tell us much about SQL. Would have liked if more information was given on SQL and how that works. All in all, good course.

By Weiyang T

Jul 26, 2018

Certain quiz questions were unclear. Final peer-review assignment had unclear/ambiguous questions that didn't fit with the data in my opinion. But content is useful. Delivery could be improved.

By Ibrahim N

Apr 3, 2021

The course is very well planned with all the basics required to run a query in SQLite. But on the other hand, when it came to the last modules the class just takes off with very few examples.

By Yi W

Dec 10, 2018

Strongly suggest adding more example code and its running result which will make more sense for beginner. And more exercise problems as current Quiz do not cover all the points in the lecture.

By Holly H

Aug 26, 2023

Found some of the questions were not well-written in the last assignment. Some of the explanations during the video were difficult to follow and I believe more complex than they needed to be

By Ankit M S

Apr 17, 2020

There should have been more worked examples of queries as it would be hard for a fresher to fully understand it. Btw the Yelp Database lookup page was very helpful to play with the dataset.

By Aatish R

May 16, 2021

The curse structure was well-drafted. However, the lack of interaction with the moderators was disheartening. The reading material linked is dated and the course needs an overall update.

By Puskar B

Jan 19, 2021

Too lengthy unnecessary explanations in the beginning and the end of every video lecture. There is no platform to execute during the lecture what the instructor is showing in the video.

By Benjamin A

Jun 5, 2020

The quizzes will expand your knowledge more. writing and running codes during lecture videos could have made it more easier to understand though, this is what is missing to get a 5 star

By Michelle P

Jan 29, 2019

You learn the basics of SQL but the course is a bit slow and repetitive, and the last peer-graded assignment should be graded by a computer or the TA's, not just random participants.

By Kelly M

Oct 9, 2021

Lectures provide limited information and then quizzes jump in difficulty from what is learned in videos. More practice worksheets or examples would be useful for new sql beginners.

By Marcel K

May 1, 2018

Great Course to start with.

Gives a good understanding of SQL on one side en working with databases on the other.

A syllabus of al the code examples in the video's should behelpfull

By Meredith H O

Apr 20, 2021

Final assignment has many questions that are unclear. Difficult to find answers in discussion forums, forums are poorly moderated, most questions have no useful answers.