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Learning Google BigQuery

By : Thirukkumaran Haridass, Mikhail Berlyant, Eric Brown
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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)
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Google Cloud and Google BigQuery

Introduction

Enterprises need a reliable messaging system for communication between different applications. Not all applications run at the same time to send and receive messages. Sometimes the sending and receiving applications need to be scaled to the same level to run concurrently to send and receive messages. Sometimes not all messages need to be processed by the receiving application. To solve such problems, Google Cloud offers the Google Cloud Pub/Sub service. If your vision is to create a real-time reporting and analytics tool for your company, then Google Cloud Pub/Sub will be the backbone for that vision.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a reliable and durable messaging system that decouples senders and receivers and allows applications to asynchronously send and receive messages. Most of the services on Google Cloud, such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, App Engine, and Cloud...