Python is a general-purpose programming language that is becoming ever more popular for data science. Companies worldwide are using Python to harvest insights from their data and gain a competitive edge. Unlike other Python tutorials, this course focuses on Python specifically for data science. In our Introduction to Python course, you’ll learn about powerful ways to store and manipulate data, and helpful data science tools to begin conducting your own analyses. Start DataCamp’s online Python curriculum now.

Master the basics of data analysis in Python. Expand your skillset by learning scientific computing with NumPy.

Discover how to use Python for data science, learning about the ways to store and manipulate data in the environment to begin conducting your own analyses.

Introduction to Python

The role of a data scientist is to turn raw data into actionable insights. Much of the world's raw data—from electronic medical records to customer transaction histories—lives in organized collections of tables called relational databases. To be an effective data scientist, you must know how to wrangle and extract data from these databases using a language called SQL . This course teaches syntax in SQL shared by many types of databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. This course teaches you everything you need to know to begin working with databases today!

Master the basics of querying tables in relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Learn the basics of syntax in SQL, how to extract and wrangle data, and use querying tables in relational databases like MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Introduction to SQL

Now that you've learned the basics of SQL in our <a href="https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-sql">Introduction to SQL</a> course,  it's time to supercharge your queries using joins and relational set theory. In this course, you'll learn all about the power of joining tables while exploring interesting features of countries and their cities throughout the world. You will master inner and outer joins, as well as self joins, semi joins, anti joins and cross joins—fundamental tools in any PostgreSQL wizard's toolbox. Never fear set theory again after learning all about unions, intersections, and except clauses through easy-to-understand diagrams and examples. Lastly, you'll be introduced to the challenging topic of subqueries. You will be able to visually grasp these ideas by using Venn diagrams and other linking illustrations.

Join two or three tables together into one, combine tables using set theory, and work with subqueries in PostgreSQL.

Discover all the fundamental in PostgreSQL, like inner, outer self, semi, anti, and cross joins, as well as unions, intersections, and except clauses.

Joining Data in SQL

SQL is an essential skill for data scientists, and Microsoft SQL Server is one of the world's most popular database systems. In this course, you'll start with simple SELECT statements, and refine these queries with ORDER BY and WHERE clauses. You'll learn how to group and aggregate your results, and also how to work with strings.  You'll also cover the most common way to join tables, how to create tables, and inserting and updating data. You'll mainly work with the Chinook digital media database, representing sales of various artists and tracks. The music theme continues with the classic rock and Eurovision datasets, while we also look at trends in power outages in the US. Overall, you'll become proficient in the most common data manipulation tasks in SQL Server and build a solid foundation for the upcoming T-SQL courses here on DataCamp!

Become proficient at using SQL Server to perform common data manipulation tasks.

Learn how to use SQL Server to do common data manipulation tasks, like insert data, joining tables,  group and aggregate results, and work with strings.

Introduction to SQL Server

So you've learned how to aggregate and join data from tables in your database—now what? How do you manipulate, transform, and make the most sense of your data? This intermediate-level course will teach you several key functions necessary to wrangle, filter, and categorize information in a relational database, expand your SQL toolkit, and answer complex questions. You will learn the robust use of CASE statements, subqueries, and window functions—all while discovering some interesting facts about soccer using the European Soccer Database.

Master the complex SQL queries necessary to answer a wide variety of data science questions and prepare robust data sets for analysis in PostgreSQL.

Intermediate SQL

There’s a lot more to Microsoft Excel than SUM and COUNT. Companies and institutions around the world use Excel’s powerful functions to efficiently transform mountains of raw data into clear insights, and now you can too.

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In this course, you’ll develop employable analyst skills as you learn how to use time-saving keyboard shortcuts, convert and clean data types including text, times and dates, and build impressive logic functions and conditional aggregations. Through hands-on practice, you’ll learn over 35 new Excel functions, including CONCATENATE, VLOOKUP, and AVERAGEIF(S), and work with real-world Kickstarter data as you use your new-found Excel skills to analyze what makes a successful project.

Discover time-saving shortcuts in Excel to help you convert and clean your data. You will learn 35+ new Excel functions including CONCAT, VLOOKUP, and more.

Data Analysis in Excel

You’ve already used SQL to query data from databases. But did you know that there's a lot more you can do with databases? You can model different phenomena in your data, as well as the relationships between them. This gives your data structure and consistency, which results in better data quality. In this course, you'll experience this firsthand by working with a real-life dataset that was used to investigate questionable university affiliations. Column by column, table by table, you'll get to unlock and admire the full potential of databases. You'll learn how to create tables and specify their relationships, as well as how to enforce data integrity. You'll also discover other unique features of database systems, such as constraints.

Learn how to create one of the most efficient ways of storing data - relational databases! 

Learn how to create tables and specify their relationships in SQL, as well as how to enforce data integrity and other unique features of database systems.

Introduction to Relational Databases in SQL

You have access to a database. Now what do you do? Building on your existing skills joining tables,  using basic functions, grouping data, and using subqueries, the next step in your SQL journey is  learning how to explore a database and the data in it.  Using data from Stack Overflow, Fortune 500 companies, and 311 help requests  from Evanston, IL, you'll get familiar with numeric, character, and date/time data types. You'll use  functions to aggregate, summarize, and analyze data without leaving  the database. Errors and inconsistencies in the data won't stop you!  You'll learn common problems to look for  and strategies to clean up messy data. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to start exploring your  own PostgreSQL databases and analyzing the data in them.

Learn how to explore what's available in a database: the tables, relationships between them, and data stored in them.

Learn what's available in a database in SQL, including the tables, relationships, and data stored in them so you can explore your own PostgreSQL databases.

Exploratory Data Analysis in SQL

Have you heard people talk about data engineers and wonder what it is they do? Do you know what data engineers do but you're not sure how to become one yourself? This course is the perfect introduction. It touches upon all things you need to know to streamline your data processing. This introductory course will give you enough context to start exploring the world of data engineering. It's perfect for people who work at a company with several data sources and don't have a clear idea of how to use all those data sources in a scalable way. Be the first one to introduce these techniques to your company and become the company star employee.

Learn about the world of data engineering with an overview of all its relevant topics and tools!

Introduction to Data Engineering

Before you can analyze data, you first have to acquire it. This course teaches you how to build pipelines to import data kept in common storage formats. You’ll use pandas, a major Python library for analytics, to get data from a variety of sources, from spreadsheets of survey responses, to a database of public service requests, to an API for a popular review site. Along the way, you’ll learn how to fine-tune imports to get only what you need and to address issues like incorrect data types. Finally, you’ll assemble a custom dataset from a mix of sources.

Learn to acquire data from common file formats and systems such as CSV files, spreadsheets, JSON, SQL databases, and APIs.

Streamlined Data Ingestion with pandas

A good database design is crucial for a high-performance application. Just like you wouldn't start building a house without the benefit of a blueprint, you need to think about how your data will be stored beforehand. Taking the time to design a database saves time and frustration later on, and a well-designed database ensures ease of access and retrieval of information. While choosing a design, a lot of considerations have to be accounted for. In this course, you'll learn how to process, store, and organize data in an efficient way. You'll see how to structure data through normalization and present your data with views. Finally, you'll learn how to manage your database and all of this will be done on a variety of datasets from book sales, car rentals, to music reviews.

Learn to design databases using star and snoflake schemas, and OLTP and OLAP. You will gain essential skills for creating and managing databases in SQL.

Database Design

Now that you’ve learned the basic tools of SQL you are ready to synthesize them into practical, real-world skills. In this course, you will work with a database of a fictional movie rental company. The size and complexity of this database will allow you to experience the challenges of working with databases firsthand. Throughout this course, you will use SQL to answer business-driven questions. You will learn new skills that will empower you to find the tables you need. You will then learn how to store and manage this data in tables and views that you create. Best of all you will also learn how to write code that not only clearly conveys your intent but is also legible.

Find tables, store and manage new tables and views, and write maintainable SQL code to answer business questions.

Applying SQL to Real-World Problems

In this course, you will learn how to use SQL to support decision making. It is based on a case study about an online movie rental company with a database about customer information, movie ratings, background information on actors and more. You will learn to apply SQL queries to study for example customer preferences, customer engagement, and sales development. This course also covers SQL extensions for online analytical processing (OLAP), which makes it easier to obtain key insights from multidimensional aggregated data.

Learn how to analyze a SQL table and report insights to management.

Data-Driven Decision Making in SQL

Get an introduction to the programming language Scala. You'll learn why and how companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Morgan Stanley are choosing Scala for large-scale applications and data engineering infrastructure. You'll learn the basics of the language, including syntax and style, focusing on the most commonly used features in the Scala standard library. You'll learn by writing code for a real program that plays a computer version of the popular card game Twenty-One. You’ll get a taste of the value of a hybrid object-oriented and functional programming language, of which Scala is the foremost example. We recommend this course for learners with intermediate-level programming experience, which can be acquired in the listed prerequisites.

Begin your journey with Scala, a popular language for scalable applications and data engineering infrastructure.

Learn the basics of the Sacla language, including syntax and style, focusing on the most commonly used features in the Scala standard library.

Introduction to Scala

You have experience working with databases or, perhaps, you have heard how useful databases can be for organizing your data. Have you ever wanted to create and manage your own databases but thought such knowledge is reserved for database administrators? Well, it is not! This course teaches you the skills and knowledge necessary to create and manage your own PostgreSQL databases. Topics that will be covered include the structure of PostgreSQL databases, PostgreSQL datatypes, and normalization of databases to efficiently store data and avoid data loss. These topics will be taught using data from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to guide the lessons and provide context for the concepts covered in the course.

This course teaches you the skills and knowledge necessary to create and manage your own PostgreSQL databases.

Creating PostgreSQL Databases

Losing time on slow queries? Hesitant to share your queries with more seasoned coworkers? In this course, you will learn how to structure your PostgreSQL to run in a fraction of the time. Exploring intertwined data relating Olympic participation, country climate, and gross domestic product, you will experience firsthand how changes in filtering method and using subqueries impact query performance. You will learn the properties of a row oriented database while also seeing how Hawaii's volcanos impact air quality. Restructuring your queries with the query planner and the SQL order of operations, you will soon be dazzling your coworkers with your effortless efficiency.

Learn how to structure your PostgreSQL queries to run in a fraction of the time.

Discover how you can structure your PostgreSQL and how changes in filtering methods and subqueries used can have an impact on query performance and speed.

Improving Query Performance in PostgreSQL

Did you know that data scientists and data analysts spend a large amount of time cleaning data before they can analyze it? This is because real-world data is messy. To help you navigate messy data this course teaches you how to clean data stored in an SQL Server database. You’ll learn how to solve common problems such as how to clean messy strings, deal with empty values, compare the similarity between strings, and much more. You’ll get hands-on with all these tasks using a wide range of interesting and messy datasets, including monthly airline flights by airport, TV series and paper shop sales. Are you ready to get your hands messy?

Develop the skills you need to clean raw data and transform it into accurate insights.

Develop the skills you need to go from raw data to awesome insights as quickly and accurately as possible.

Cleaning Data in SQL Server Databases

Learn the fundamental skills necessary to interact with the majority of dialects of SQL -- PostgreSQL, MySQL, and others! The skills you learn by taking these courses will empower you to join tables, summarize data, and answer your data analysis and data science questions. 

Learn the fundamental skills necessary to interact with the majority of dialects of SQL -- PostgreSQL, MySQL, and others!

SQL Fundamentals

Gain the foundational skills you need to be a confident, high-earning SQL database administrator. In this track, you’ll learn how to create, manage, and optimize your PostgreSQL database. Through real-world exercises you’ll write and run real-code in your browser as you learn how to use T-SQL syntax, DML triggers, and improve query performance, making sure that your database can scale as your business needs grow.

Gain the database skills you need to become a confident, high-earning SQL DBA. Learn how to create, grow, and manage your PostgreSQL database. 

SQL for Database Administrators

Learning Python is crucial for any aspiring data science practitioner. Learn to visualize real data with Matplotlib's functions and get acquainted with data structures such as the dictionary and the pandas DataFrame. After covering key concepts such as boolean logic, control flow, and loops in Python, you'll be ready to blend together everything you've learned to solve a case study using hacker statistics.

Level up your data science skills by creating visualizations using Matplotlib and manipulating DataFrames with pandas.

In this intermediate Python course, learn to visualize real data with Matplotlib's functions and get to know new data structures such as the pandas DataFrame.

Intermediate Python

Importing data into R should be the easiest step in your analysis. Unfortunately, that is almost never the case. Data can come in many formats, ranging from .csv and text files, to statistical software files, to databases and HTML data. Knowing which approach to use is key to getting started with the actual analysis.
In this course, you’ll start by learning how to read .csv and text files in R. You will then cover the readr and data.table packages to easily and efficiently import flat file data. After that, you will learn how to read .xls files in R using readxl and gdata.

In this course, you will learn to read CSV, XLS, and text files in R using tools like readxl and data.table.

Learn to read .xls, .csv, and text files in R using readxl and gdata, before learning how to use readr and data.table packages to import flat file data.

Introduction to Importing Data in R

A picture can tell a thousand words - but only if you use the right picture! This course teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization with Google Sheets. You'll learn how to create common chart types like bar charts, histograms, and scatter charts, as well as more advanced types, such as sparkline and candlestick charts. You will look at how to prepare your data and use Data Validation and VLookup formulas to target specific data to chart. You'll learn how to use Conditional Formatting to apply a format to a cell or a range of cells based on certain criteria, and finally, how to create a dashboard showing plots and data together. Along the way, you'll use data from the Olympics, sharks attacks, and Marine Technology from the ASX.

Learn the fundamentals of data visualization using spreadsheets. 

Learn how to create different chart types, from bar charts, histograms, and scatter charts, to advanced sparkline and candlestick charts in Google Sheets.

Data Visualization in Spreadsheets

Data scientists can experience huge benefits by learning concepts from the field of software engineering, allowing them to more easily reutilize their code and share it with collaborators. In this course, you'll learn all about the important ideas of modularity, documentation, & automated testing, and you'll see how they can help you solve Data Science problems quicker and in a way that will make future you happy. You'll even get to use your acquired software engineering chops to write your very own Python package for performing text analytics.

Learn about modularity, documentation, and automated testing to help you solve data science problems more quickly and reliably.

Software Engineering for Data Scientists in Python

Visualizing data in plots and figures exposes the underlying patterns in the data and provides insights. Good visualizations also help you communicate your data to others, and are useful to data analysts and other consumers of the data. In this course, you will learn how to use Matplotlib, a powerful Python data visualization library. Matplotlib provides the building blocks to create rich visualizations of many different kinds of datasets. You will learn how to create visualizations for different kinds of data and how to customize, automate, and share these visualizations.

Learn how to create, customize, and share data visualizations using Matplotlib.

Introduction to Data Visualization with Matplotlib

Become a master at building complex reports!  In this course, you will apply all the SQL concepts and functions you have learned in previous courses to build out your very own dashboard.  By navigating through an Olympics database, you will become an expert data explorer and learn how to understand novel database quickly and effectively.  Since data is never perfect, you will gain valuable strategies to deal with real-world issues commonly found with SQL, including how to remove data duplication and how to turn messy data into clean, organized reports.  Lastly, you’ll conquer complex calculations using window functions and layered calculations, all within the same report.  This is a perfect class for anyone who will be commonly pulling data from databases and is a great complement for those who use R or Python for data science.

Learn how to build your very own dashboard by applying all the SQL concepts and functions you have learned in previous courses.

Reporting in SQL

Businesses track data on everything, from operations to marketing to HR. Leveraging this data enables businesses to better understand themselves and their customers, leading to higher profits and better performance. In this course, you’ll learn about the key metrics that businesses use to measure performance. You'll write SQL queries to calculate these metrics and produce report-ready results. Throughout the course, you'll study data from a fictional food delivery startup, modeled on data from real companies.

Learn to write SQL queries to calculate key metrics that businesses use to measure performance.

Analyzing Business Data in SQL

In this course, you will learn how to make use of the most important functions for manipulating data provided by SQL Server.  You can use these functions for processing and transforming data to get the results you want.

Learn the most important functions for manipulating, processing, and transforming data in SQL Server.

Learn how to use the most important functions for manipulating data in SQL Server to manipulate, process, and transform data to get the results you want.

Functions for Manipulating Data in SQL Server

Do you want to query complex data structures in an iterative way? Do you have access to hierarchical data structures that need to be queried? This course will teach you the tools required to solve these questions. You will learn how to write recursive queries and query hierarchical data structures. To do this, you will use Common Table Expressions (CTE) and the recursion principle on a wide variety of datasets. You will, for example, dig into a flight plan dataset and learn how to find the best and cheapest connection between two airports. After completing this course, you will understand the principle of recursion, and be able to identify and create hierarchical data models.

Learn how to write recursive queries and query hierarchical data structures.

Learn how to write recursive queries as well as query hierarchical data structures using Common Table Expressions (CTE) and the recursion principle.

Hierarchical and Recursive Queries in SQL Server

What is data science and how can you use it to strengthen your organization? This course will teach you about the skills you need on your data team, and how you can structure that team to meet your organization's needs. Data is everywhere! This course will provide you with an understanding of data sources your company can use and how to store that data. You'll also discover ways to analyze and visualize your data through dashboards and A/B tests. To wrap up the course, we'll discuss exciting topics in machine learning, including clustering, time series prediction, natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and explainable AI! Along the way, you'll learn about a variety of real-world applications of data science and gain a better understanding of these concepts through practical exercises.

Learn about data science and how can you use it to strengthen your organization. 

Data Science for Business

Gain a 360° overview of exploring and using Power BI to build impactful reports. In this course, you’ll go from zero to hero as you discover how to use this popular business intelligence platform through hands-on exercises. Before diving into creating visualizations using Power BI's drag-and-drop functionality, you’ll first learn how to confidently load and transform data using Power Query and the importance of data models. You’ll also learn to drill down into reports and make your reports fully interactive. You've got the power!

Gain a 360° overview of how to explore and use Power BI to build impactful reports.

Learn how to use the Power BI platform to load and transform data, create visualzations, run DAX formulas, and create reports through hands-on exercises.

Introduction to Power BI

Data literacy is an essential skill for every role within an organization—not just data scientists and analysts. As companies collect more data than ever before, it’s critical that everyone can read and analyze that data efficiently. In this course, you'll learn the basics of data-driven decision-making and get to apply these skills to three real-life examples from the world of finance, marketing, and operations. You’ll also discover how to uncover new insights and opportunities by applying supply and demand, cost and benefit, and risk and rewards frameworks—gaining practical skills to help you thrive in the new data-driven world.

Discover how to make better business decisions by applying practical data frameworks—no coding required.

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