Technical requirements

As mentioned in previous chapters, to get the most out of this chapter, you will want to have access to the Google Cloud console (https://console.cloud.google.com/). You can begin exploring the GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Data-Exploration-and-Preparation-with-BigQuery) for this book to browse and download diagrams and code snippets. If you have not already, you will also want to view and add the Google Trends dataset to your Google Cloud project for hands-on examples. Visit the Google Trends dataset at https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/bigquery-public-datasets/google-search-trends and click View Dataset. This will bring the dataset into your SQL workspace in BigQuery. You may star (add to favorites) the dataset to find it more easily. Expand the dataset, click a table, and click Preview in the middle pane. You have just begun exploring a dataset in BigQuery. Continue in this chapter to better understand resources and...