I want to start this last chapter by thanking you for sticking with me and making it to this point. I hope that what you learned in the preceding chapters was interesting and that you feel like you learned a lot that you will be able to apply. In this short final chapter, I am going to try to give you some advice to help you put what you learned into practice.
In section 11.1, I tie together the strategic churn-fighting advice that was distributed throughout the book and give you a checklist of steps to take to pursue the various strategies.
Then I’ll go over the practical steps you need to take to use the techniques from the book on your own data. You can take two paths, which are the subjects of the next two sections:
- Section 11.2 goes over the steps to take if you want to load your own data into the PostgresSQL schema used in the book and then run the book listings on your own data.
- Section 11.3 describes the alternative, which is to take the book’s listings (SQL, Python, or both) and port them to your own production environment.