Getting ready to use the Google Cloud Platform

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) supports several types of analysis, including entity, sentiment, and content classification, and syntax analysis. For low usage, the account is free to use. However, before you can use the API, you need to set up an account.

In this recipe, we will illustrate how to create and use a Google account to perform NLP analysis.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

1. Create a Google account if you do not already have one. Go to https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp, where you will find the following page. Fill in this and the subsequent pages to create your account:

2. Once...