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Learning Google BigQuery

Learning Google BigQuery

By : Berlyant, Haridass, Brown
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Learning Google BigQuery

Learning Google BigQuery

3.3 (4)
By: Berlyant, Haridass, Brown

Overview of this book

Google BigQuery is a popular cloud data warehouse for large-scale data analytics. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide to mastering BigQuery, and how you can utilize it to quickly and efficiently get useful insights from your Big Data. You will begin with getting a quick overview of the Google Cloud Platform and the various services it supports. Then, you will be introduced to the Google BigQuery API and how it fits within in the framework of GCP. The book covers useful techniques to migrate your existing data from your enterprise to Google BigQuery, as well as readying and optimizing it for analysis. You will perform basic as well as advanced data querying using BigQuery, and connect the results to various third party tools for reporting and visualization purposes such as R and Tableau. If you're looking to implement real-time reporting of your streaming data running in your enterprise, this book will also help you. This book also provides tips, best practices and mistakes to avoid while working with Google BigQuery and services that interact with it. By the time you're done with it, you will have set a solid foundation in working with BigQuery to solve even the trickiest of data problems.
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Google Cloud and Google BigQuery

Installing Google Cloud SDK

The installers are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Since Linux has various distributions, some manual command execution is needed for installing and configuring the Google Cloud SDK on Linux.

Installing Google Cloud SDK on Windows

Google Cloud SDK for Windows comes with a friendly installer and it also comes with an option to install Python which is a prerequisite to run the commands in Google Cloud SDK:

  1. Download the installer from the link provided: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-windows. The installer is a GUI-based utility which will install the requisites for the SDK, and the SDK with default configuration.
  1. In the installation wizard, choose the Bundled Python...

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