Teaching SQL to non engineers
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Kohei Kikuchi held a 6-week SQL class called "SQL Honki-Juku" for non-engineers at his company to teach them how to extract and analyze data. The curriculum focused on practical SQL skills needed for the company database rather than following a typical textbook order. Using real company data engaged the students and 9 staff from various roles enrolled. The class resulted in students learning faster than expected and feeling excited to program and see real database structures for the first time. One student even began extracting data in their everyday work.
Teaching SQL to non engineers
- 1. Teaching SQL to non engineers Tech Talk Tokyo #3 Kohei Kikuchi
- 2. Kohei Kikuchi Data Analysis / Recommendation / Data Visualization & Reporting Using R / SQL etc. RareJob, Inc. Data Scientist
- 4. Circumstance -‐‑‒ Problem Planner Marketer CS Data please!Data please! Data please!
- 5. To be… Planner Marketer CS Select.. From..Select.. From.. Select.. From..
- 6. What did we do? SQL Honki-‐‑‒Juku Honki (本気) = serious Juku(塾) = class Study Exercise Practice
- 7. Curriculum Week Content # of Home Work 1 select/from/where/limit/count()/sum() 5 2 order by/group by/between/concat()/as 5 3 indent/as/join 5 4 comment/in/having/case/like/group_concat() 5 5 sub query/unix Dme/bit operaDon 5 6 index/data warehouse 5 Home Work example Q. Count # of new paying students by day. (Jan.1 to 10, 2016) A. select date, count(*) from xxx where date between ‘2016-‐01-‐01’ and ‘2016-‐01-‐10’ group by date
- 8. Curriculum Week Content # of Home Work 1 select/from/where/limit/count()/sum() 5 2 order by/group by/between/concat()/as 5 3 indent/as/join 5 4 comment/in/having/case/like/group_concat() 5 5 sub query/unix Dme/bit operaDon 5 6 index/data warehouse 5 Not following chapter order of SQL introduction books. 1. create database 2. create table 3. insert 4. update 5. delete Specialize to data extraction and analysis of RareJob DB. We need -‐‑‒ Unix time -‐‑‒ Bit operation -‐‑‒ Data warehouse …
- 9. Using real data -‐‑‒ They could understand data definition immediately -‐‑‒ They got interested in the data * Individual data is masked Typical data = Boring… Real data = Fun!
- 10. 9 staffs joined Planner (3) Marketer (2) Accountant (1) CS (2) Sales (1)
- 11. Result ・Learners acquired much faster than I expected (Not having engineering skill, but have strong motivation to see data) ・They felt very excited “This is my first programming!” “I didnʼ’t know how database looks like until now.”
- 12. Result Begin to extract data in everyday work written by a planner
- 13. Great!
- 14. Thank you :)