The purpose of this project is to build an adapted data model thanks to python to load data in a JSON file format and wrangle them into a star schema (see the ERD) for a Postgre database.

1. Install Python 3.x.

2. This project is build with conda instead of pip. Install anaconda or modify the script to make use of pip.

3. You need also to have a Postgre database up and running. This project is configured to use the database on localhost. See the query string in the script to configure your instance or modify it to suit your installation.

4. To understand the concept and logic of this project you can read an run the .ipynb files with Jupyter Notebook.

You will not be able to run test.ipynb, etl.ipynb, or etl.py until you have run create_tables.py at least once to create the sparkifydb database, which these other files connect to.

The compagny Sparkify need to analyses theirs data to better know the way users (free/paid) use theirs services. With this data model we will be able to ask question like When? Who? Where? and What? about the data.

This data model is called a start schema data model. At it's aim is a Fact Table -songplays- that containg fact on song play like user agent, location, session or user's level and then have columns of foreign keys (FK) of 4 dimension tables :

• Songs table with data about songs
• Artists table
• Users table
• Time table

This model enable search with the minimum SQL JOIN possible and enable fast read queries.

Few steps

1. Launch create_tables.py to prepare the database
2. Run etl.py to wrangle the data