Business Analytics with MySQL & Python
Why Python with SQL?
Python has many benefits for data analysts and data scientists. It is a very helpful tool for any
data analyst because of the wide variety of open-source libraries available.
For data analysis, we have Pandas and NumPy, for visualisation, Matplotlib (and few more
like Seaborn), and for machine learning applications, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, and PyTorch
(plus many, many more).
Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages available, and it's quite easy to
learn and handle data from varied sources.
So, it's important to consider where all of this data comes from if we're using Python for data
analysis.
Despite the enormous range of sources for datasets, data is frequently kept in relational
databases, especially in commercial enterprises. Relational databases are a very effective,
potent, and often-used method for generating, reading, updating, and deleting data of all
kinds.
The most popular relational database management systems (RDBMSs), including Oracle,
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and IBM DB2, all access and modify data
using the Structured Query Language (SQL).
SQL and Python are two widely used technologies in the field of analytics. SQL allows you
to communicate with relational databases, and Python helps you analyze and visualize data
by using various libraries. But you can use SQL with Python to write queries and solve
specific problems.