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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

Smart Parking Solution by Mark N Park


This use case is going to focus more on the IoT and data processing side of the application.

Abstract

In this use case, our aim is to find real-time parking occupancy of four wheel vehicles and show it on mobile and web apps.

Introduction

Now with the introduction and abstract you have already got an idea of the use cases. But this will be in more detail. So, we have to build an application on Google Cloud Platform where our primary aim is to show the real-time occupancy of vehicle parking.

And to show the real-time occupancy of the parking lots we require that information to be updated in the database. For this purpose we have multiple options, such as installing numerous cameras covering the entire parking lot. Another option can be installing GPS locating sensors to every vehicle entering the premise. And one more option can be installing sensors that detect the presence and absence of vehicles in the parking lot.

Let's assume we are going with option number...