Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals

This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

• Course Introduction
• Meet the author
• Course introduction
• Big Data and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
• Introduction
• Google Cloud infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• The history of big data and ML products
• Big data and ML product categories
• Customer example: Gojek
• Lab introduction: Exploring a BigQuery Public Dataset
• Exploring a BigQuery Public Dataset
• Summary
• Quiz
• Reading list
• Data Engineering for Streaming Data
• Introduction
• Big data challenges
• Message-oriented architecture
• Designing streaming pipelines with Apache Beam
• Implementing streaming pipelines on Cloud Dataflow
• Visualization with Looker
• Visualization with Looker Studio
• Lab introduction: Creating a streaming data pipeline for a Real-Time dashboard with Dataflow
• Creating a Streaming Data Pipeline for a Real-Time Dashboard with Dataflow
• Summary
• Quiz
• Reading list
• Big Data with BigQuery
• Introduction
• Storage and analytics
• Demo: Querying TB of data in seconds
• Introduction to BigQuery ML
• Using BigQuery ML to predict customer lifetime value
• BigQuery ML project phases
• BigQuery ML key commands
• Lab introduction
• Predict Visitor Purchases with BigQuery ML
• Summary
• Quiz
• Reading list
• Machine Learning Options on Google Cloud
• Introduction
• Options to build ML models
• Pre-built APIs
• AutoML
• Custom training
• Vertex AI
• AI Solutions
• Summary
• Quiz
• Reading list
• The Machine Learning Workflow with Vertex AI
• Introduction
• Data preparation
• Model training
• Model evaluation
• Model deployment and monitoring
• Lab introduction: Predicting loan risk with AutoML
• Vertex AI: Predicting Loan Risk with AutoML
• Lab recap: Predicting loan risk with AutoML
• Summary
• Quiz
• Reading list
• Course Summary
• Course summary
• Your Next Steps
• Course Badge