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Exercise

Selecting columns with SQL

Datasets can contain columns that are not required for an analysis, like the weather table in data.db does. Some, such as elevation, are redundant, since all observations occurred at the same place, while others contain variables we are not interested in. After making a database engine, you'll write a query to SELECT only the date and temperature columns, and pass both to read_sql() to make a dataframe of high and low temperature readings.

pandas has been loaded as pd, and create_engine() has been imported from sqlalchemy.

Note: The SQL checker is quite picky about column positions and expects fields to be selected in the specified order.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Create a database engine for data.db.
  • Write a SQL query that SELECTs the date, tmax, and tmin columns from the weather table.
  • Make a dataframe by passing the query and engine to read_sql() and assign the resulting dataframe to temperatures.