Introduction to data
driven decision
making
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Irene Ortner
Data Scientist at Applied Statistics
Aim of this course
A short review of SQL know-how
Apply your SQL know-how to extract business insights from data
Learn about new SQL statements to summarize data
OLAP extensions were developed speci cally for business intelligence
Examples are CUBE, ROLLUP and GROUPING SETS
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MovieNow: an online movie rental company
Platform to stream movies
Additional information for each movie: genre, main actors, etc.
Customer information
Customers can give a rating a er watching a movie
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MovieNow data structure
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MovieNow data structure
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MovieNow data structure
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MovieNow data structure
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MovieNow data structure
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Objectives of data driven decision making
Information for operational decisions
Popularity of actors to decide which movies to invest in.
Revenue of the last months to estimate budget for short term investments.
Information for strategic decisions
Success across countries to decide on market extensions.
Longterm development of revenue for long term investments.
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KPIs: Key Performance Indicators
Extract information from the data which is relevant to measure the success of MovieNow.
Total number of rentals: revenue
The average rating of all movies: customer satisfaction
Number of active customers: customer engagement
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Let's get started!
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Filtering and
ordering
D ATA - D R I V E N D E C I S I O N M A K I N G I N S Q L
Tim Verdonck
Professor Statistics and Data Science
WHERE
Select all customers from Italy:
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE country = 'Italy';
|customer_id | name | country | gender | date_of_birth | date_account_start|
|------------|-------------------|---------|--------|---------------|-------------------|
| 53 | Teresio Panicucci | Italy | male | 1999-07-21 | 2018-11-06 |
| 54 | Demetrio Palermo | Italy | male | 1997-10-10 | 2018-10-17 |
| 55 | Facino Milano | Italy | male | 1973-05-23 | 2018-01-02 |
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Operators in the WHERE clause
Comparison operators:
Equal =
Not equal <>
Less than <
Less than or equal to <=
Greater than >
Greater than or equal to >=
BETWEEN operator
IN operator
IS NULL and IS NOT NULL operators
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Example comparison operators
Select all columns from movies where the genre is not Drama.
SELECT *
FROM movies
WHERE genre <> 'Drama';
Select all columns from movies where the price for renting is larger equal 2.
SELECT *
FROM movies
WHERE renting_price >= 2;
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Example: BETWEEN operator
Select all columns of customers where the date when the account was created is between
2018-01-01 and 2018-08-31.
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE date_account_start BETWEEN '2018-01-01' AND '2018-09-31';
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Example: IN operator
Select all actors with nationality USA or Australia.
SELECT *
FROM actors
WHERE nationality IN ('USA', 'Australia')
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Example: NULL operator
Select all columns from renting where rating is NULL .
SELECT *
FROM renting
WHERE rating IS NULL
Select all columns from renting where rating is not NULL .
SELECT *
FROM renting
WHERE rating IS NOT NULL
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Boolean operators AND
Select customer name and the date when they created their account for customers who are
from Italy AND who created an account between 2018-01-01 and 2018-08-31.
SELECT name, date_account_start
FROM customers
WHERE country = 'Italy'
AND date_account_start BETWEEN '2018-01-01' AND '2018-08-31';
| name | date_account_start |
|--------------------|--------------------|
| Facino Milano | 2018-01-02 |
| Mario Lettiere | 2018-01-30 |
| Rocco Buccho | 2018-02-27 |
| Cristoforo Mancini | 2018-01-12 |
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Boolean operators OR
Select customer name and the date when they created their account for customers who are
from Italy _OR_ who created an account between 2018-01-01 and 2018-08-31.
SELECT name, date_account_start
FROM customers
WHERE country = 'Italy'
OR date_account_start BETWEEN '2018-01-01' AND '2018-08-31';
| name | country | date_account_start |
|-----------------------|-------- |--------------------|
| Rowanne Couperus | Belgium | 2018-08-26 |
| Annelous Sneep | Belgium | 2018-05-12 |
| Jaëla van den Dolder | Belgium | 2018-02-08 |
| ... | ... | ... |
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ORDER BY
Order the results of a query by rating.
SELECT *
FROM renting
WHERE rating IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY rating;
| renting_id | customer_id | movie_id | rating | date_renting |
|------------|-------------|----------|--------|--------------|
| 552 | 28 | 56 | 1 | 2017-03-27 |
| 558 | 41 | 19 | 3 | 2019-01-13 |
| 444 | 120 | 59 | 3 | 2018-08-10 |
| 200 | 86 | 46 | 3 | 2018-08-26 |
| 234 | 104 | 28 | 4 | 2018-10-04 |
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ORDER BY ... DESC
Order the results of a query by rating in descending order.
SELECT *
FROM renting
WHERE rating IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY rating DESC;
| renting_id | customer_id | movie_id | rating | date_renting |
|------------|-------------|----------|--------|--------------|
| 243 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 2019-01-11 |
| 18 | 36 | 39 | 10 | 2019-03-20 |
| 396 | 7 | 40 | 10 | 2018-09-11 |
| 487 | 61 | 48 | 10 | 2017-08-14 |
| 476 | 78 | 42 | 10 | 2018-07-04 |
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Aggregations -
summarizing data
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Bart Baesens
Professor Data Science and Analytics
Overview aggregations
SELECT AVG(renting_price)
FROM movies;
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Overview aggregations
SELECT AVG(renting_price)
FROM movies;
Some aggregate functions in SQL
AVG()
SUM()
COUNT()
MIN()
MAX()
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Aggregation with NULL values
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM actors;
Result: 145
SELECT COUNT(name)
FROM actors;
Result: 145
SELECT COUNT(year_of_birth)
FROM actors;
Result: 143
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DISTINCT
SELECT DISTINCT country SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT country)
FROM customers; FROM customers;
Result: 11
| country |
|---------------|
| Spain |
| Great Britain |
| Austria |
| Poland |
| ............. |
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DISTINCT with `NULL` values
SELECT DISTINCT rating
FROM renting
ORDER BY rating;
| rating |
|--------|
| 1 |
| ...... |
| 10 |
| null |
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Give an alias to column names
SELECT AVG(renting_price) AS average_price,
COUNT(DISTINCT genre) AS number_genres
FROM movies;
| average_price | number_genres |
|---------------|---------------|
| 2.21 | 8 |
Helps to understand the results when column names are self-explaining.
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Let's practice!
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