[Beginner] DS Practice UW Coursera

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30 Discussing UW Lecture Material
6:30 - 7:00 David from Plentyoffish will be giving us a short introduction to SQL (Thanks David)
7:00 - 8:30 Practicing SQL on http://sqlschool.modeanalytics.com/

About the meetup:

In this group we will be going over the online open source masters program together:

http://datasciencemasters.org/

And we'll start with the University of Washington into to Data Science course:

https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci

For this first meetup we'll introduce datascience and go over relational databases and relational algebra w/ SQL.

To prepare for the meetup event, watch the lecture videos under the section "Relational Databases, Relational Algebra"

https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001/lecture/preview

We will go over and discuss the material covered by those videos during the meetup.

If you have time you can also attempt the Database Assignment: Simple In-Database Text Analytics.