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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

You're reading from   Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform An end-to-end guide to processing and analyzing big data using Google Cloud Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839686
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sanket Thodge Sanket Thodge
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Cloud Analytics FREE CHAPTER 2. Design and Business Considerations 3. GCP 10,000 Feet Above – A High-Level Understanding of GCP 4. Ingestion and Storing – Bring the Data and Capture It 5. Processing and Visualizing – Close Encounter 6. Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI on GCP 7. Guidance on Google Cloud Platform Certification 8. Business Use Cases 9. Introduction to AWS and Azure 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Professional Data Engineer Certification


Up next is the list of services that are typically a must-know for a Professional Data Engineer.

Topics for Cloud Data Engineer Certification

The following are the list of important topics required for the certification:

  • BigQuery
  • Dataflow
  • Dataproc
  • Machine Learning API
  • TensorFlow
  • Stream Pipeline
  • Streaming Analytics and Dashboards

Let’s discuss all of them in more detail.

BigQuery

BigQuery, as we know by now, is a serverless SQL data analysis tool on petabyte-scale data. Have some very good hands-on experience on the service and study different use cases. Learn how BigQuery works and the features it supports: serverlessness, SQL-like queries, wildcards, loading data (using a CLI, web UI, or API).

You can also have a user-defined function and the different constraints it has. Learn a few best practices such as stopping projecting unnecessary columns, filtering often with the where cause, and many others.

Dataflow

As you already know by now, Dataflow is about autoscaling...

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