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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.

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DataFrameas
df
variable
--Use a CTE aliased as top3_perf_industries to find top three performing industries
WITH top3_perf_industries AS (
  --Select industry and count of new unicorns for each industry
  SELECT i.industry, 
	     COUNT(*) AS num_new_unicorns
  --Inner join industries and dates table on the company_id column
  FROM industries AS i
  INNER JOIN dates AS d
  ON i.company_id = d.company_id
  --Filter for the three most recent years
  WHERE EXTRACT(YEAR FROM date_joined) IN (2019, 2020, 2021)
  --Group by industry
  GROUP BY i.industry
  --Order by count of new unicorns per industry in descending order
  ORDER BY num_new_unicorns DESC
  --Limit results to the first three rows
  LIMIT 3
),
--Create a second CTE and name it yearly_rankings
yearly_rankings AS (
--Select industry, extract year from date_joined column,count the number new unicorns and average valuation per industry-year pair
SELECT i.industry,
       EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) AS year,
	   COUNT(*) AS num_unicorns, 
	   AVG(f.valuation) AS average_valuation
--Inner join industries,dates and funding table on the company_id field
FROM industries AS i
INNER JOIN dates AS d
ON i.company_id = d.company_id
INNER JOIN funding AS f
ON i.company_id = f.company_id
--Group by industry followed by year in ascending order
GROUP BY i.industry, year)

--Select industry,yeaad num_unicorns from yearly_rankings
SELECT industry,
       year,
	   num_unicorns, 
	   --Divide the average_valuation field by 10^6 and round the resulting              values to two decimal places
	   ROUND(AVG(average_valuation/1000000000),2) AS average_valuation_billions
FROM yearly_rankings
--Filter the year for 2019,2020 and 2021 and the industry for the top three performing industries
WHERE YEAR IN (2019, 2020, 2021) AND
      industry IN (SELECT industry
					FROM top3_perf_industries)
--Group by industry, year and num_unicorns fields
GROUP BY industry,year,num_unicorns
--Order by year and num_unicorns in descending order
ORDER BY year DESC, num_unicorns DESC;