Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals

Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud Platform and its Big Data Products

Instructor: Valliappa Lakshmanan (Lak) https://medium.com/@lakshmanok

Works at Google
Previously at NOAA

Definition and Benefits of Cloud:

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Google typically runs into big data problems before other companies

Platform:

Module 2: Foundations of GCP Compute and Storage

They have a real (cool) cloud!

Module 3: Data Analysis on the Cloud

Most of the value in this module is from the labs.
Labs:

Module 4: Scaling Data Analysis: Compute with GCP

The Tensorflow Playground is super cool

Labs:

Module 5: Data Processing Architectures: Scalable Ingest, Transform and Load

Google Pub/Sub and Dataflow

Module 6: Summary of Google Cloud Platform, Big Data, and ML

Why Cloud
Why Google Cloud
Start on GCP
Google Data-Related Products