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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 Translation API


Natural language processing (NLP) is a part of artificial intelligence that focuses on Machine Translation (MT). MT has become the main focus of NLP group since many years. MT deals with translating text in source language to text in target language. Cloud Translation API provides a graphical user interface to translate an inputted string of a language to targeted language, it’s highly responsive, scalable and dynamic in nature. This API enables translation among 100+ languages. It also supports language detection automatically with accuracy. It provides a feature to read a web page contents and translate to another language, and need not be text extracted from a document. The Translation API supports various features such as programmatic access, text translation, language detection, continuous updates and adjustable quota, and affordable pricing.

The following image shows the architecture of the translation model: 

 

In other words, the cloud translation API is an adaptive...