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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
WITH TOTAL_UNICORNS AS (
    SELECT 
        i.industry, 
        COUNT(c.company_id) AS total_unicorns
    FROM 
        public.companies c
    INNER JOIN 
        public.industries i ON i.company_id = c.company_id
    INNER JOIN 
        public.dates d ON c.company_id = d.company_id
    WHERE 
        TO_CHAR(d.date_joined, 'YYYY') IN ('2019', '2020', '2021')
    GROUP BY 
        i.industry
    ORDER BY 
        total_unicorns DESC
    LIMIT 3
),
INDUSTRY_DETAILS AS (
    SELECT 
        i.industry, 
        TO_CHAR(d.date_joined, 'YYYY') AS year, 
        COUNT(c.company_id) AS num_unicorns, 
        ROUND(AVG(f.valuation)/1000000000.0, 2) AS average_valuation_billions
    FROM 
        public.companies c
    INNER JOIN 
        public.industries i ON i.company_id = c.company_id
    INNER JOIN 
        public.dates d ON c.company_id = d.company_id
    INNER JOIN 
        public.funding f ON c.company_id = f.company_id
    WHERE 
        TO_CHAR(d.date_joined, 'YYYY') IN ('2019', '2020', '2021')
        AND i.industry IN (SELECT industry FROM TOTAL_UNICORNS)
    GROUP BY 
        i.industry, TO_CHAR(d.date_joined, 'YYYY')
),
RANKED_RESULTS AS (
    SELECT 
        industry, 
        year, 
        num_unicorns, 
        average_valuation_billions, 
        RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY year ORDER BY num_unicorns DESC) AS rank
    FROM 
        INDUSTRY_DETAILS
)
SELECT 
    industry, 
    year, 
    num_unicorns, 
    average_valuation_billions
FROM 
    RANKED_RESULTS
WHERE 
    rank <= 3
ORDER BY 
    year DESC, 
    num_unicorns DESC;