Learning Google BigQuery: A beginner's guide to mining massive datasets through interactive analysis

Get a fundamental understanding of how Google BigQuery works by analyzing and querying large datasets

Key Features

• Get started with BigQuery API and write custom applications using it
• Learn how BigQuery API can be used for storing, managing, and query massive datasets with ease
• A practical guide with examples and use-cases to teach you everything you need to know about Google BigQuery

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Get a hands-on introduction to Google Cloud Platform