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Rolling Retention Rates by Cohort
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Rolling Retention Rates by Cohort

HardSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

The OpenAI ChatGPT analytics team wants to compare engagement across user signup cohorts. Write a PostgreSQL query that measures activity during each user's first ninety days after signup.

Requirements

  1. Group users by their signup_date cohort.
  2. Calculate daily retention as the number of distinct users active on each cohort date divided by the cohort size.
  3. Calculate the ninety-day rolling average of daily retention for each cohort using a window function ordered by activity date.
  4. Exclude activity before signup, activity after day 90, users without a signup date, and rows with a null activity date. Return results ordered by cohort and activity date.

Schema

users
ColumnTypeDescription
user_idPKINTEGERUnique user identifier
signup_dateDATEDate the user signed up
user_activity
ColumnTypeDescription
activity_idPKINTEGERUnique activity record
user_idINTEGERUser associated with the activity
activity_dateDATEDate of the activity
Tablesusersuser_activity
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