Snowflake for Beginners: Make your First Snowsight Dashboard

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Overview

Embark on a journey to master one of the key in-demand skills in today's data-centric world with "Snowflake for Beginners: Make Your First Snowsight Dashboard." Data management has emerged as a crucial skill, essential for collecting, organizing, storing, and analyzing data efficiently. Organizations globally, including leading names like Adobe, AT&T, BlackRock, and Capital-One, have embraced Snowflake for its cloud data platform capabilities. This beginner-level project, offered by Coursera, is tailored for business analysts aiming to unlock insights from their company's data using Snowflake.

In this practical guide, participants will take on the role of an analyst in the strategy department of a fictional burger chain in New York. The core task is to develop a dashboard that sheds light on the company's market share while comparing it with key competitors. By the close of this project, learners will be adept at:

Creating a trial account and navigating through the Snowflake user interface (UI) to import data from the Snowflake Marketplace.
Setting up virtual warehouses, databases, and tables to streamline data loading into Snowflake.
Executing their inaugural query using Snowflake SQL worksheets and elevating it into a Snowsight dashboard.

This project is a stepping stone for those with an elementary grasp of SQL (specifically writing SELECT statements) and a basic understanding of database concepts such as tables and schemas. Delve into this guided project to craft your first Snowsight dashboard and enhance your proficiency in data management.

Provider: Coursera. Categories: SQL Courses, Snowflake Courses.