How I Learnt How To Push Data

Spencer — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:09:18 +0000

Introduction

DATA; data has become an essential key tool in the day to day running of the modern world which is consuming and producing data in large amount. Mobile applications, social media, and business transactions are some of the few ways that data is produced massively. However, collecting this data alone is not enough, organizations need a way to understand this data and today i begin to understand my way in the data world.

Undestanding Git and Github

Git is a software that I installed locally in my computer in order to enable to see what I changed, when I did make the change and allows me to go back in case something went wrong
_Gitub_is an online platform where git repositories are stored and shared, basically github stores a copy of your work online

Terminologies

Repository- A Repository is an online project being tracked by git
Clone- To clone is a process whereby lets say another researcher or writer sees your project then decides to actualy donwload it
Forking- to fork is actually making the changes on the project that you have downloaded from github and sending it back to the owner asking if they can also make the changes on their far end
Pushpush- To git push is actually moving your project from your local computer into the online platform called github
Gitpull- To gitpull is the process of taking your project from github into your local computer, it's actually privatisation of your project
Commit- is a saved checkpoint in a project history

linking git and github

As discussed earlier , git is a softer that we install in our local computer and githu is an online platform where the git repositories are stored so we link the two using a secure shell "SSH" hence enabling the pushing and pulling of projects from your github to your computer

Creating and preparing your file

In creating and preparation of my files below are some of the key commands I learnt

cd- change directory
Mkdir- make directory
Ls - list
Touch- make file
rm-r -remove command
cd.. - going back to the previous file
echo - to push data

Writing line of code,Block of data and Quotes

in writing a simple line of code we use the sign <> i.e
select* from kenya hospital.analysis
in writing a block of data we us the same icon but enclosed in a rectangle i.e

SELECT. patient. name 
FROM. kenyan hospital analysis
WHERE patient_disease "malaria"

Also during one of the sessions we where given a quote by stephen

I came, I saw , I conquered
by stephen

Generation of URL links

Below is a URL link to my article about my first week of onboarding
article on onboarding week https://dev.to/new

below is a picture of writing data

conclusion

My first week in Luxdev has been really educative and very motivating encouraging me to keep on going and increasing my urge to learn more in data science and analytics

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