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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

Google Data Studio


In the GCP ecosystem, along with data crunching, we also require data representation and telling stories by graphical representation. Therefore, to fulfill this requirement, we have Google Data Studio. It is a very popular visualization tool used to create a graph and chart so as to represent the data to the business owner. Using Data Studio, we combine the data from a variety of sources for reporting and analysis and share dashboards. We can also filter data at the report, page, or chart level. And the best part is that Data Sudio is absolutely free to use, while comparing Data Studio with Tableau or Power Bl.

Features of Data Studio

The following are the features of Google Data Studio.

Data connections

One of the major challenges of data reporting tools has always been the ability to access and bring all the data together. Google Data Studio easily manages this by simplifying the process—by providing the prebuilt data connectors you need.

We have connectors to connect to...