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Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform

You're reading from   Data Engineering with Google Cloud Platform A guide to leveling up as a data engineer by building a scalable data platform with Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080115
Length 476 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Adi Wijaya Adi Wijaya
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Data Engineering with GCP FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Data Engineering 3. Chapter 2: Big Data Capabilities on GCP 4. Part 2: Build Solutions with GCP Components
5. Chapter 3: Building a Data Warehouse in BigQuery 6. Chapter 4: Building Workflows for Batch Data Loading Using Cloud Composer 7. Chapter 5: Building a Data Lake Using Dataproc 8. Chapter 6: Processing Streaming Data with Pub/Sub and Dataflow 9. Chapter 7: Visualizing Data to Make Data-Driven Decisions with Looker Studio 10. Chapter 8: Building Machine Learning Solutions on GCP 11. Part 3: Key Strategies for Architecting Top-Notch Solutions
12. Chapter 9: User and Project Management in GCP 13. Chapter 10: Data Governance in GCP 14. Chapter 11: Cost Strategy in GCP 15. Chapter 12: CI/CD on GCP for Data Engineers 16. Chapter 13: Boosting Your Confidence as a Data Engineer 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercise – Scenario 3

As a final activity in this chapter, you can do a self-exercise to solve an additional business question from business users. Our operational user from scenario 2 wants to ask this additional question:

Show me the top three regions that have the most female riders as of the most recent date (2018-01-02).

Because the gender of members is not yet included in our fact and dimension table, you need to create a different fact and dimension table.

Remember that the data model is subjective, especially in the Kimball method. There is no right or wrong answer to the question. As we’ve discussed in this chapter, people can use different data models to represent the real world.

Try to solve it yourself and compare it to the solution in the Git code example:

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