Book Image

Learning Google BigQuery

By : Thirukkumaran Haridass, Mikhail Berlyant, Eric Brown
Book Image

Learning Google BigQuery

By: Thirukkumaran Haridass, Mikhail Berlyant, Eric 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.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Google Cloud and Google BigQuery

Cloud Pub/Sub via Google Cloud Console

Navigate to Cloud Pub/Sub from the main menu, as shown in the following screenshot. Choose the Topics option under Pub/Sub:

Create a topic as shown in the following screenshot. A topic is like a category for messages that are sent/received between the applications:

Click on the menu button in the topic created and choose the New subscription option to create a new subscription to pull messages: 

Enter a name for the subscription and choose Pull as the delivery type, and then click on the Create button. This creates a subscription for messages of the type learningBigQuery:

Navigate to the Topics page and click on the menu button for the topic to send a sample message, as shown in this screenshot:

Enter the text for the message and the data to be sent with the message, as shown in the following screenshot. Click on ...