Maji Ndogo: From analysis to action
Starting the journey
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Maji Ndogo: From analysis to action
Welcome to Maji Ndogo
The story we'll step into is not unique to Maji Ndogo; it mirrors
real-world challenges faced in many places across the globe.
Our mission is to help rejuvenate the drying Mto wa Matumaini – The
River of Hope—using a data-driven approach.
Completing this mission won't just make you adept at SQL;
it will empower you to tackle complex challenges,
equipping you with highly desirable skills.
Large parts of this project were generated using AI. All
characters and places are fictional but purposely designed.
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What will we be doing?
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Part 1: Beginning our data-driven journey in Maji Ndogo
Explore a realistic database with SQL.
Use SQL to clean and explore a database with 60,000 unique
records.
Become immersed in a story-driven simulation of real data
projects, data analysis, and good leadership.
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Part 2: Clustering data to unveil Maji Ndogo's water crisis
Gear up for a data analysis of Maji Ndogo's water scenario.
Harness the power of SQL functions, including intricate window
functions, to draw insights from the data.
Aggregate data to unravel the scale of the problem and start to
form some actionable insights.
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Part 3: Weaving the data threads of Maji Ndogo's narrative
Deal with some of the realities faced in many countries.
Draw from different data sources to deepen the analysis into Maji
Ndogo’s crisis.
Use advanced SQL tools to assemble the pieces of an audit
together.
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Part 4: Charting the course for Maji Ndogo's water future
Combine SQL tools to finalize our analysis.
Assemble our final analysis results, and report our findings.
Look to the future as we derive actionable goals and shape the
data to achieve them.
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Assessments
The integrated project has four assessment opportunities. These will be in the
format of MCQs and are based on the activities done in that week’s part.
Part 1: 10 questions Part 3: 10 questions
Create, modify, and explain basic queries Retrieve data from multiple tables in the
related to the water survey database. water survey database.
Part 2: 10 questions Part 4: 10 questions
Use functions to clean, aggregate, and Use functions, filters, and advanced SQL
analyze data from the water survey tools to analyze real datasets.
database.
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Project instructions format
The format of the slides that
guide us through the project
each week mimics a chat-like
interface, similar to Google Chat.
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Project instructions format
The format of the slides that
guide us through the project
each week mimics a chat-like
interface, similar to Google Chat.
Chidi Kunto is our best virtual
data analyst, who will help to
break down tasks from
President Naledi into more
technical data questions.
Chidi represents a role model for
an analyst. He is a good leader,
passionate about the work he
does, and critically thinks about
everything.
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Project instructions format
These status icons indicate
progress. As we complete
sections, the status icons turn
green.
The current task we’re working
on is shown in blue, and tasks
yet to come are still in red.
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Project instructions format
The story, tasks, code blocks,
and query results are shared by
Chidi in this space.
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Project instructions format
The timestamps on these
messages are unique. We can
reference these like page
numbers when collaborating or
when asking questions.
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Format
The story of Maji Ndogo’s
struggle is told in grey chat
bubbles.
The tasks we should do are
highlighted in dark blue.
These are the queries we need
to create to get the result sets
Chidi shares throughout the
project.
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Managing SQL queries in MySQL Jupyter notebooks
Jupyter notebooks offer an interactive
environment that's perfect for data projects,
especially when working with SQL databases.
We can write SQL queries, execute them, and store
the results of those queries – all in one place.
We can create notebooks in Jupyter to organize our
work, summarize our findings, make some notes, and
store results so that we can reference them later.
An example notebook is available for Part 1, but we
encourage you to create these on your own for the
rest of the project.
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Our main goal
To make sure we’re the ones standing out in an interview,
we should be able to solve any problem we’re given using
our SQL skills.
Engaging with this project fully will help you to do that! So
forget about the marks, and build your skills in SQL.
Several points in this project will be challenging, so we
should rely on each other to learn. If you get stuck, reach
out to your teammates and ask for help.
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