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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Cloud Vision API


Cloud Vision API is powerful image analytic tool. It enables the users to understand the content of image. It helps in finding various attributes or categories of an image, such as labels, web, text, document, properties, safe search, and code of that image in JSON. In labels field there are many sub-categories like text, line, font, area, graphics, screenshots, and points. How much area of graphics involved, text percentage, what percentage of empty area and area covered by text, is there any image partially or fully mapped in web are included web contents. The document consists of blocks of image with detailed description, properties shows that the colors used in image is visualized. If any unwanted or inappropriate content is removed from the image through safe search. The main features of this API are label detection, explicit content detection, logo and landmark detection, face detection, web detection, and to extract the text the API used Optical Character Reader ...