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Analyzing Olympics Data in SQL & Databricks

In this session, Holly, a Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks, teaches you how to get started using the Databricks platform while working through an analysis of Olympics sporting data.

Jul 23, 2024

The Olympics is one of the highlights of the sporting calendar, and it's fun to analyze with SQL! Of course, there is much more to analyzing data than writing SQL queries, and cloud data platforms like Databricks have many tools for analysts to use.

In this session, Holly, a Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks, teaches you how to get started using the Databricks platform while working through an analysis of Olympics sporting data. You'll write some SQL, but learn how that fits into the larger analytics workflow.

Key Takeaways:

Learn how to get started with Databricks.
Learn to write SQL queries for analyzing sporting datasets.
Learn how to visualise your results

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Data Engineering

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