Learn how to use SQL for descriptive statistics: to summarize data sets, derive insights, and make predictions.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Installing PostgreSQL
- Load data into PostgreSQL
- Basics: Count, minimum, and maximum
- Basics: Sum and average
- Variance and standard deviation
- Introduction to percentiles
- Discrete percentiles
- Continuous percentiles
- Summary of percentiles
- Introduction to correlation
- Correlations between variables
- ROW_NUMBER
- Mode
- Summary of correlations
- Introduction to linear regression
- Minimizing error
- Computing intercept
- Computing slope
- Overview of SQL for statistics
Taught by
Dan Sullivan