Ok. Back to work on the capstone for Learn SQL Basics for Data Science (via Coursera). I’m trying to look at the connections between a country’s population and economic metrics and success in the olympic games. I’ve collected all the data, gave it a quick look, and now it’s time to dig in. (If you want to see how I […]
(Standard warning in all my posts. I’m a beginner. Nothing below should be taken as the best way of doing things, a good way of doing things, or even a right way of doing things. If you think you know better than me, you probably do. Please comment with better practices) So, I was working on my first week’s assignment […]
So we’ve come to the last course in the Learn SQL Basics for Data Science specialization from UC-Davis (via Coursera), the capstone project. Here we supposedly take what we learned during the other courses and make something. Really, though, in the early days of this course I’m still learning a lot. So I’m writing this series of posts as a […]
(What is this project I’m writing about? I have a pretty detailed description here.) The first thing I’m noticing is that I’m taking this project very seriously. This is a project that I feel like I could provide a minimally acceptable product and pass and move on. I’m not doing that. I think there are 2 reasons: This is a […]
Note: I am just finishing my first SQL class on Coursera. So my judgement of how difficult a question might be needs to be understood on that basis. That’s for the fancy pants actually know SQL types. For those just learning like me… Everything I say below might be entirely wrong. Please do not take anything I say here as good advice […]