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DrAlkistis Pourtsidou(Queen Mary University of London)
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Description
SQL (Structured Query Language) is used widely in academia and industry to query databases (e.g. to retrieve and manipulate data). This hands-on lecture will introduce the language and work on a “commercial” dataset using the SQLite database engine that comes for free with Python, as well as the Pandas data analysis library.
The tutorial, in the form of a Jupyter notebook, is available here: https://github.com/Alkistis/DSI/blob/master/SQL-tutorial-DSI.ipynb
Note: if you cannot view it directly via the above link, please go to https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/ and enter the link there.