Activity 3.01 – using SQL data for pandas analytics

As the data analyst at a supply company, you have been provided with a list of customers and orders for Q4 2020. The data is present in some tables in a database named supply_company.db, and you have been asked by the sales team to identify the largest purchasing customer for Q4.

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You can find the code for this activity at https://github.com/PacktWorkshops/The-Pandas-Workshop/tree/master/Chapter03/Activity03_01.

Follow these steps to complete this activity:

1. For this activity, you will only need the pandas and sqlite3 libraries. Load them into the first cell of the notebook.
2. Get the list of tables that are contained in the supply_company.db file. The database can be downloaded from https://github.com/PacktWorkshops/The-Pandas-Workshop/blob/master/Chapter03/datasets/supply_company.db.
3. Use a pandas SQL method to load the table that contains the orders into a DataFrame.
4. Determine the number of customers...