Technical requirements
The dataset we use in this exercise is the Historic Vehicle GPS Data: Department of Public Services (2016) dataset. This hands-on example is intended to replicate a real-life scenario based on vehicle location data and a transportation data use case.
You may wish to use your existing Google Cloud project for this exercise or create a new one. If you wish to use a new project, do the following:
- Within the Cloud console, click the project selector on the top menu bar to open the project selection dialog box.
- From within the project selection window, you can create a new project for this exercise.
Figure 12.1 – The project selection dialog box
To follow along with this chapter you will need to bring the following data source into your BigQuery project. We will review step by step how to load the dataset into BigQuery later in this chapter. For now, you can download each file locally to your computer so it will...