Overview
E-Commerce is the activity of buying or selling products through online services or over the Internet. The e-commerce market has changed the way business is transacted, whether in retail or business-to-business, locally or globally.
The dataset of this project is from an online store, which includes product information and customer transaction records from 2016 to 2018. The ultimate goal of the company is to improve the sales. In this project, youre supposed to find out the online shopping behaviors of the customers and make marketing suggestions for the store in order to increase the customers life-time value to the company.
Dataset
The dataset has 7 tables, which include customer transaction information for each order and the product information:
onlineshop_customers.sql
onlineshop_orders_items.sql: one order can contain more than one item.
onlineshop_orders.sql: fulfilled indicates the order was completed.
onlineshop_products_sku.sql: sku represent stock keeping unit, which is used to track inventory in the store.
onlineshop_product.sql
onlineshop_traffic.sql: page_views: each time a user visits a web page, it is called a page view; sessions: a session is a group of user interactions with your website that take place within a given time frame; avg_session_in_s: average seconds in one session.
onlineshop_transactions.sql: status success indicates the transaction was completed.
Assignment
The objective of this E-Commerce project is to test your SQL skills as well as data analytics skills. Firstly, because the dataset is in .sql format, you will need to load the dataset into MySQL Workbench. Make sure to create a schema first, the sql files are for individual tables. Feel free to utilize visualizations and research material to support your responses to some of the tasks and questions. Also, remember to show your calculations.
