Customer Behavior Analysis in PostgreSQL

Empower your business decision-making. Learn how to analyze customer behavior and track lifecycle trends with PostgreSQL in 72 interactive exercises.

Discover how to dissect the behavior of your customers using SQL queries on a PostgreSQL database. In this interactive online course, we use a sample dataset from an online store that sells groceries and other everyday items.

Customers are essential for every business. So, a lot of effort goes into understanding how they behave. Modern businesses need data analysis of the sales funnel and customer behavior. Both sales and marketing departments must understand what customers do by following their steps until they make a purchase.

In this interactive online course, you learn to analyze acquisition, conversion, and sales in PostgreSQL, while taking your SQL knowledge to the next level. Many of our users say the same thing happens with their business sales!

Through 72 interactive exercises, you learn how to prepare different customer behavior reports in PostgreSQL. You learn how to look at customer behavior and the entire customer journey, from the first visit to turning someone into a buyer, making sales, and keeping track of the customer's intent to leave.

You'll learn:

• How to obtain the number of sign-ups for a specific time period using PostgreSQL and how to compare these numbers between different time periods.
• What conversion is, how to calculate conversion rates in PostgreSQL for a given period, and how to compare conversion rate trends
• What it means to group customers into cohorts and how to study the cohort behavior using PostgreSQL.
• How to analyze customer activity in PostgreSQL, including the average time to the first order and the typical time between orders.
• How to use SQL’s CASE WHEN to sort customers into categories you define.
• How to prepare customer conversion charts in PostgreSQL.
• How to generate customer churn reports in PostgreSQL.

You need the basics of SQL to take full advantage of this course. You should know how to combine data from multiple tables with JOIN and how to use WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, and HAVING clauses (we introduce these elements in our SQL Basics in PostgreSQL course.)

What you learn in our online course may be used in lots of different businesses like stores, insurance companies, subscription services, mobile apps, and more. So, you learn not just the theory but also skills that directly help you run your organization. You will know how to look at what customers do in a wide variety of scenarios.

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What's in it for me?

• 72 interactive exercises. Study whenever you want, from wherever you are, and take as much time as you need. Engage in hands-on exercises to help you retain what you learn.
• Certificate of completion. Once you wrap up all the exercises in the course, you get a PDF certificate to download. This certificate is a great way to show off your achievement. You can even add it to your LinkedIn profile.
• Exercise hints. There are tips for each exercise. Plus, you may ask questions or talk about what you learn with other people taking the course in the Discuss section. And if you need to, reach out to us – we’re here to help!

What Do You Need to Take This Course?

• Basic knowledge of SQL.
• A web browser.
• An internet connection.

Learn How To:

• Track customer behavior throughout the sales funnel with PostgreSQL.
• Examine customer acquisition with PostgreSQL queries.
• Create customer conversion charts in PostgreSQL.
• Verify customer churn and retention.
• Verify customer churn and retention using PostgreSQL.
• Create SQL reports about customer behavior using a PostgreSQL database.

Who Should Take This Course?

• Analysts who know the fundamentals of SQL and want to use it for reporting with PostgreSQL.
• Business analysts who wish to work with PostgreSQL.
• Entrepreneurs who want to optimize their businesses.
• Professionals working in sales and marketing using PostgreSQL databases.
• Aspiring data scientists.
• Anyone who knows basic SQL in theory and wants to use it in practice.
• You!