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A Curios Moon - a data science mystery that teaches you PostgreSQL by working on projects that use real nasa data sets in a fictional setting (your role as a data science intern at red:4)

https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/



This is really nice book. It assumes you are a developer/good with computers, though, so some of the things like dev environment setup are ommited


As it should be; I dislike when books are dogmatic a out setup. Those pages are usually out of date at by the time the book is in print.


Does it assume I know SQL though?


No, you can start with absolutely zero knowledge, but it has different approach than usual courses.

You don't start with simple selects, but importing data from files and normalizing it. You're intern at aerospace startup after all.

I'd say it's _refreshing_ compared to prevalent approach to teaching SQL


I wonder how this compares to another suggestion here

https://www.masterywithsql.com/




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