This course will introduce students to the basics of the Structured Query Language (SQL) as well as basic database design for storing data as part of a multi-step data gathering, analysis, and processing effort. The course will use SQLite3 as its database. We will also build web crawlers and multi-step data gathering and visualization processes. We will use the D3.js library to do basic data visualization. This course will cover Chapters 14-15 of the book “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-13 of the textbook and the first three courses in this specialization. This course covers Python 3.
This course is part of the Python for Everybody Specialization
Using Databases with Python
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What you will learn
Explain the basics of Object Oriented Python
Understand how data is stored across multiple tables in a database
Use the Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations to manage databases
Utilize the Google Maps API to visualize data
Skills you will gain
Python ProgrammingDatabase (DBMS)SqliteSQL
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
1Object Oriented Python
To start this class out we cover the basics of Object Oriented Python. We won't be writing our own objects, but since many of the things we use like BeautifulSoup, strings, dictionaries, database connections all use Object Oriented (OO) patterns we should at least understand some of its patterns and terminology.
8 videos (Total 64 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
8 videos
Unicode Characters and Strings17m
14.1 - Object Oriented Definitions and Terminology8m
14.2 - Our First Class and Object7m
14.3 - Object Life Cycle8m
14.4 - Object Inheritance6m
Bonus: Interview - Software Engineering - Bertrand Meyer11m
Bonus: Office Hours - London1m
4 readings
Help us learn more about you!10m
Python Textbook10m
Coming from Python 2 - Encoding Data in Python 310m
Notice for Auditing Learners: Assignment Submission10m
2 practice exercises
Using Encoded Data in Python 310m
Object Oriented Programming22m
Week
2Basic Structured Query Language
We learn the four core CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) to manage data stored in a database.
7 videos (Total 77 min), 3 quizzes
7 videos
15.2 - Using Databases12m
15.3 - Single Table CRUD16m
Worked Example: Counting Email in a Database13m
Bonus: Office Hours Zagreb, Croatia3m
Interview: Elizabeth Fong - The Early Years of SQL7m
Worked Example: Twspider.py (Chapter 15)9m
1 practice exercise
Single-Table SQL22m
Week
3Data Models and Relational SQL
In this section we learn about how data is stored across multiple tables in a database and how rows are linked (i.e., we establish relationships) in the database.
8 videos (Total 81 min), 2 quizzes
8 videos
15.5 - Representing a Data Model in Tables11m
15.6 - Inserting Relational Data9m
15.7 - Reconstructing Data with JOIN12m
Worked Example: Tracks.py (Chapter 15)13m
Bonus: Office Hours Perth, Australia1m
Bonus Interview: Niklaus Wirth15m
Bonus: Office Hours Barcelona2m
1 practice exercise
Multi-Table Relational SQL20m
Week
4Many-to-Many Relationships in SQL
In this section we explore how to model situations like students enrolling in courses where each course has many students and each student is enrolled in many courses.
5 videos (Total 62 min), 2 quizzes
5 videos
Worked Example: roster.py (Chapter 15)11m
Bonus: Office Hours Mexico, City54s
Bonus Interview: Andrew Tannenbaum - Minix10m
Worked Example: Twfriends.py (Chapter 15)21m
1 practice exercise
Many-to-Many Relationships and Python18m
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(143)By MM•Mar 13th 2018
The course is great... You can definitely learn many things... Was kind of hard for me and i went many times back and forth through most of the lectures... However i think i learn many new things....
By JG•Jun 17th 2016
This course was great! I enjoyed parsing different types of data: from documents and the web. This course is definitely (rudimentary) a must take course for anyone who wants to go into data science.
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Charles Severance
Associate ProfessorSchool of Information
About University of Michigan
The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.
About the Python for Everybody Specialization
This Specialization builds on the success of the Python for Everybody course and will introduce fundamental programming concepts including data structures, networked application program interfaces, and databases, using the Python programming language. In the Capstone Project, you’ll use the technologies learned throughout the Specialization to design and create your own applications for data retrieval, processing, and visualization.
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