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You have been asked to support an investment firm by analyzing trends in high-growth companies. They are interested in understanding which industries are producing the highest valuations and the rate at which new high-value companies are emerging. Providing them with this information gives them a competitive insight as to industry trends and how they should structure their portfolio looking forward.

You have been given access to their unicorns database, which contains the following tables:

dates

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
date_joinedThe date that the company became a unicorn.
year_foundedThe year that the company was founded.

funding

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
valuationCompany value in US dollars.
fundingThe amount of funding raised in US dollars.
select_investorsA list of key investors in the company.

industries

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
industryThe industry that the company operates in.

companies

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
companyThe name of the company.
cityThe city where the company is headquartered.
countryThe country where the company is headquartered.
continentThe continent where the company is headquartered.

The output

Your query should return a table in the following format:

industryyearnum_unicornsaverage_valuation_billions
industry12021------
industry22020------
industry32019------
industry12021------
industry22020------
industry32019------
industry12021------
industry22020------
industry32019------

Where industry1, industry2, and industry3 are the three top-performing industries.

Spinner
DataFrameas
df1
variable
-- unicorns in years 2019-2021
SELECT
	company_id,
	EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) AS unicorn_year
FROM dates
WHERE EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) BETWEEN 2019 AND 2021
LIMIT 5
Spinner
DataFrameas
df3
variable
--top_3_industries_2019_2021
	SELECT
		industry
	FROM (SELECT
			company_id,
			EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) AS unicorn_year
		FROM dates
		WHERE EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) BETWEEN 2019 AND 2021
		) AS u
	LEFT JOIN industries AS i
	ON i.company_id = u.company_id
	GROUP BY industry
	HAVING COUNT(u.company_id) >0
	ORDER BY COUNT(u.company_id) DESC
	LIMIT 3
Spinner
DataFrameas
df
variable
WITH top_3_industries_2019_2021 AS (
	SELECT
		industry
	FROM (SELECT
			company_id,
			EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) AS unicorn_year
		FROM dates
		WHERE EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) BETWEEN 2019 AND 2021
		) AS u
	LEFT JOIN industries AS i
	ON i.company_id = u.company_id
	GROUP BY industry
	HAVING COUNT(u.company_id) >0
	ORDER BY COUNT(u.company_id) DESC
	LIMIT 3
),
	
unicorns_in_2019_2021 AS (
	SELECT
		company_id,
		EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) AS unicorn_year
	FROM dates
	WHERE EXTRACT(year FROM date_joined) BETWEEN 2019 AND 2021)

SELECT
	top3.industry,
	unicorn_year AS year,
	count(u.company_id) as num_unicorns,
	ROUND(AVG(valuation/1000000000),2) AS average_valuation_billions
FROM top_3_industries_2019_2021 AS top3
INNER JOIN industries AS ind
	ON top3.industry = ind.industry
INNER JOIN unicorns_in_2019_2021 AS u
	ON ind.company_id = u.company_id
INNER JOIN funding AS f
	ON u.company_id = f.company_id
GROUP BY top3.industry, unicorn_year
ORDER BY year desc, num_unicorns desc;