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5 Most Useful SQL Best Practices You Should Follow
Given the vast set of commands in SQL, there can be multiple ways to get the required result data set. However, it is important to know and implement efficient, computationally inexpensive ways to achieve your goal. Therefore, I listed here 5 best practices for writing SQL... Read more
5 Reasons Why SQL is Still the Most Accessible Language for New Data Scientists
For budding data scientists and data analysts, there are mountains of information about why you should learn R over Python and the other way around. Though both are great to learn, what gets left out of the conversation is a simple yet powerful programming language that... Read more
Don’t Sleep on SQL – 5 Reasons Why it’s a Must-Have Skill in 2022
While we mostly hear about Python, R, and Julia in regards to coding for data science, SQL (Structured Query Language) still has its place as a fundamental skill that supplements more popular languages. Given its ease of use and ability to quickly get started, its versatile... Read more
5 SQL Data Wrangling Techniques Every Expert Should Know
Data wrangling is an essential job function for data engineering, data science, or machine learning roles. As knowledgable coders, many of these professionals can rely on their programming skills and help from libraries like Pandas to wrangle data. However, it can often be optimal to manipulate... Read more
We take a holistic approach towards best practices at 173Tech. Data and analytics are here to guide us in our daily decisions. It needs to be clearly defined, trusted, and easily digestible for everyone. We build quality and thoughtfulness into all aspects of our processes. It is... Read more
To Learn SQL or Not is the Question
It is generally a major debate amongst many data analysts and data scientists if they should learn SQL to be able to do their job, especially when you have great packages and libraries to ingest data in R/Python directly. In today’s day and age with the... Read more
A Sneak Peek at SQL Bootcamp for Data Science
For years now, ODSC has served as a resource for data professionals to connect, learn from each other, and contribute back to the community as our field moves forward at a lightning pace. Their commitment to data science has extended into the current pandemic, resulting in... Read more
Complex Queries in SQL
Hopefully, your SQL queries aren’t tangled like this. (Photo: Author) Texts on SQL are good at providing the basic templates of SQL syntax, but sometimes the queries in those books are a little idealized compared to real life, with no more than two or three tables... Read more
How to Get Started with SQL
Just about every popular app and social media platform has an engine under the hood that powers the information and data we absorb. With hundreds of millions of data points to keep track of, there has to be a well-oiled machine to maintain that database. Every... Read more
3 Sought-After Data Science Skills to Get Hired in 2019
Getting a job in data science is a wide-open prospect. Standing out and being successful is another story. Don’t languish in mediocre data science hell. Get to work on these essential skills to stand out in the data science field, get hired, and thrive, and find... Read more