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Data Exploration and Preparation with BigQuery

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125266
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mike Kahn Mike Kahn
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to BigQuery
2. Chapter 1: Introducing BigQuery and Its Components 3. Chapter 2: BigQuery Organization and Design 4. Part 2: Data Exploration with BigQuery
5. Chapter 3: Exploring Data in BigQuery 6. Chapter 4: Loading and Transforming Data 7. Chapter 5: Querying BigQuery Data 8. Chapter 6: Exploring Data with Notebooks 9. Chapter 7: Further Exploring and Visualizing Data 10. Part 3: Data Preparation with BigQuery
11. Chapter 8: An Overview of Data Preparation Tools 12. Chapter 9: Cleansing and Transforming Data 13. Chapter 10: Best Practices for Data Preparation, Optimization, and Cost Control 14. Part 4: Hands-On and Conclusion
15. Chapter 11: Hands-On Exercise – Analyzing Advertising Data 16. Chapter 12: Hands-On Exercise – Analyzing Transportation Data 17. Chapter 13: Hands-On Exercise – Analyzing Customer Support Data 18. Chapter 14: Summary and Future Directions 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enhancing data exploration in BigQuery

In the previous sections, we outlined a few approaches for beginning to understand your data and beginning data exploration in BigQuery. Now we will outline some additional approaches and touch on best practices.

Advanced approaches

Jupyter Notebooks are popular for data exploration and analysis. They are tools commonly used by data scientists. However, notebooks are becoming more common in interacting with ML models and large datasets. You can leverage BigQuery’s integration with Jupyter Notebooks to write SQL queries and perform data exploration in a collaborative and interactive environment. By using libraries such as google-cloud-bigquery, you can execute queries, fetch results, and visualize data within the notebook itself.

BigQuery Studio provides an analytics workspace of notebooks within the BigQuery console. BigQuery Studio helps integrate tools into a single experience that can reduce the need to utilize other tools,...

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