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SQL Masterclass
for Data Scientists

Danny Ma
Sept 2021
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About me
 My Data Science Journey
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(so far...)

Data Analyst Customer Loyalty Data & AI Strategy

Marketing Cloud ML & Data Consultant
Campaigns Engineering Educator & Mentor

2010 2014 2016 2018 2020 PRESENT

Started Bachelors Digital Banking Launched

Actuarial Studies & Data Science & ML Data With Danny
Economics Experimentation Online Community
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How can I find

out more about
Data With Danny?

bit.ly/dwd-info
 COMMON SQL MYTHS
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(CREATED BY DATA SCIENTISTS)

"SQL is such an old
language, I only want to
learn modern tools so it
looks better on my
resume"
"I can do everything in "SQL is so slow and poor
Python, I don't need performing, I can't rely
SQL for any of my data on it because sometimes
science tasks" the database can't
handle my queries"

"The only SQL I need is
SELECT * FROM
because I always need
the entire dataset from
the database"
"SQL is going away soon "SQL is only for data
and I don't want to analysts, as a data
waste my time learning scientist - I don't need
it - everything is moving to use SQL anymore
to NoSQL anyway" because it's below me"
SQL FACTS
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SQL appears in over SQL queries can be used SQL is a standardised

40% of all data job with many languages language making it a
listings posted on and frameworks via very versatile skill used
Indeed in 2021 objects and APIs to across different domains
interact with databases and tech environments

65% of data scientists The modern data stack SQL databases can also
and data analysts use is moving to SQL-centric store semi-structured
SQL according to a 2020 tools such as Snowflake, data like JSON objects
Stack Overflow survey Amazon Redshift and with expanding support
Google BigQuery for images and other
newer data sources
THE PLAN FOR TODAY
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SQL General
Masterclass Q&A
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Where can I find

today's slides &
code examples?

bit.ly/odsc-sql
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SQL
Masterclass
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General
Q&A