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Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Aug 7, 2024 EDT
Build a Data Mesh with Dataplex Earned Jun 11, 2024 EDT
Building Resilient Streaming Systems on Google Cloud Platform Earned Jun 3, 2024 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines Earned May 30, 2024 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Operations Earned May 15, 2024 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned Apr 26, 2024 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations Earned Apr 16, 2024 EDT
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud Earned Apr 16, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Apr 4, 2024 EDT
Visualize Your Data in Looker Earned Mar 20, 2024 EDT
Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights Earned Mar 15, 2024 EDT
Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
BI Reporting: Looker Visualization on BigQuery Earned Feb 29, 2024 EST
Data Warehousing for Partners: Analyze Data with Looker Earned Feb 28, 2024 EST
Analyzing and Visualizing Data the Google Way Earned Feb 27, 2024 EST
Data Warehousing for Partners: Stream Data with Pub/Sub Earned Feb 12, 2024 EST
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned Feb 8, 2024 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned Jan 29, 2024 EST
Data Warehousing for Partners: Cloud Data Fusion Pipelines Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Data Lake Modernization on Google Cloud: Cloud Data Fusion Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned Jan 22, 2024 EST
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud Earned Jan 12, 2024 EST
Building Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion Earned Jan 9, 2024 EST
Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned Dec 29, 2023 EST
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned Apr 27, 2023 EDT
Security Best Practices in Google Cloud Earned Apr 25, 2023 EDT
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud Earned Apr 24, 2023 EDT
Managing Security in Google Cloud Earned Apr 19, 2023 EDT
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned Nov 15, 2022 EST
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker Earned Nov 15, 2022 EST
Developing Data Models with LookML Earned Nov 15, 2022 EST
Manage Data Models in Looker Earned Nov 8, 2022 EST
Understanding LookML in Looker Earned Nov 8, 2022 EST
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned Nov 4, 2022 EDT
Delivery Shadowing Earned Nov 3, 2022 EDT
Case Studies Earned Nov 2, 2022 EDT
Technology + Beyond the UI Earned Nov 2, 2022 EDT
Technology + Within the UI Earned Nov 2, 2022 EDT
Table Calculations, Pivots, and Visualizations Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Building Reports in Looker Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Liquid Templates and Parameters Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Extends to Keep LookML DRY Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Admin Roles and Folder Access Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Version Control and Caching Earned Oct 31, 2022 EDT
The Modern Data Platform and LookML Earned Oct 31, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis Earned Oct 26, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned Oct 26, 2022 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned Oct 25, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned Oct 5, 2022 EDT
Driving Data Culture and Designing Dashboards Earned Oct 3, 2022 EDT
Achieving Business Outcomes with Looker Earned Oct 2, 2022 EDT
Looker Explained Earned Oct 2, 2022 EDT

Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Dataplex to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Dataplex.

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This 1-week, accelerated on-demand course builds upon Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals. Through a combination of video lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, you'll learn to build streaming data pipelines using Google cloud Pub/Sub and Dataflow to enable real-time decision making. You will also learn how to build dashboards to render tailored output for various stakeholder audiences.

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In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.

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In the last installment of the Dataflow course series, we will introduce the components of the Dataflow operational model. We will examine tools and techniques for troubleshooting and optimizing pipeline performance. We will then review testing, deployment, and reliability best practices for Dataflow pipelines. We will conclude with a review of Templates, which makes it easy to scale Dataflow pipelines to organizations with hundreds of users. These lessons will help ensure that your data platform is stable and resilient to unanticipated circumstances.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.

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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.

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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.

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This skill badge course aims to unlock the power of data visualization and business intelligence reporting with Looker, and gain hands-on experience through labs.

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This is the second course in the Data to Insights course series. Here we will cover how to ingest new external datasets into BigQuery and visualize them with Looker Studio. We will also cover intermediate SQL concepts like multi-table JOINs and UNIONs which will allow you to analyze data across multiple data sources. Note: Even if you have a background in SQL, there are BigQuery specifics (like handling query cache and table wildcards) that may be new to you. After completing this course, enroll in the Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery course.

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The third course in this course series is Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery. Here we will build on your growing knowledge of SQL as we dive into advanced functions and how to break apart a complex query into manageable steps. We will cover the internal architecture of BigQuery (column-based sharded storage) and advanced SQL topics like nested and repeated fields through the use of Arrays and Structs. Lastly we will dive into optimizing your queries for performance and how you can secure your data through authorized views. After completing this course, enroll in the Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud course.

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This workload aims to upskill Google Cloud partners to perform specific tasks for modernization using LookML on BigQuery. A proof-of-concept will take learners through the process of creating LookML visualizations on BigQuery. During this course, learners will be guided specifically on how to write Looker modeling language, also known as LookML and create semantic data models, and learn how LookML constructs SQL queries against BigQuery. At a high level, this course will focus on basic LookML to create and access BigQuery objects, and optimize BigQuery objects with LookML.

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This course explores how to leverage Looker to create data experiences and gain insights with modern business intelligence (BI) and reporting.

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This learning experience guides you through the process of utilizing various data sources and multiple Google Cloud products (including BigQuery and Google Sheets using Connected Sheets) to analyze, visualize, and interpret data to answer specific questions and share insights with key decision makers.

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This course explores how to implement a streaming analytics solution using Pub/Sub.

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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics.

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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML.

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This course continues to explore the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Cloud Data Fusion.

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Welcome to Cloud Data Fusion, where we discuss how to use Cloud Data Fusion to build complex data pipelines.

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In this course you will get hands-on in order to work through real-world challenges faced when building streaming data pipelines. The primary focus is on managing continuous, unbounded data with Google Cloud products.

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While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.

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This quest offers hands-on practice with Cloud Data Fusion, a cloud-native, code-free, data integration platform. ETL Developers, Data Engineers and Analysts can greatly benefit from the pre-built transformations and connectors to build and deploy their pipelines without worrying about writing code. This Quest starts with a quickstart lab that familiarises learners with the Cloud Data Fusion UI. Learners then get to try running batch and realtime pipelines as well as using the built-in Wrangler plugin to perform some interesting transformations on data.

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In this intermediate course, you will learn to design, build, and optimize robust batch data pipelines on Google Cloud. Moving beyond fundamental data handling, you will explore large-scale data transformations and efficient workflow orchestration, essential for timely business intelligence and critical reporting. Get hands-on practice using Dataflow for Apache Beam and Serverless for Apache Spark (Dataproc Serverless) for implementation, and tackle crucial considerations for data quality, monitoring, and alerting to ensure pipeline reliability and operational excellence. A basic knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud concepts is recommended.

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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.

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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Storage access control technologies, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, API access controls, scoping, shielded VMs, encryption, and signed URLs. It also covers securing Kubernetes environments.

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In this self-paced training course, participants learn mitigations for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use. They also learn about the Security Command Center, cloud logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.

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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Identity, Resource Manager, IAM, Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Peering, Cloud Interconnect, and VPC Service Controls. This is the first course of the Security in Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Security Best Practices in Google Cloud course.

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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.

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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.

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This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.

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Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.

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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.

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In this course, you shadow a series of client meetings led by a Looker Professional Services Consultant.

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By the end of this course, you should feel confident employing technical concepts to fulfill business requirements and be familiar with common complex design patterns.

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In this course you will discover additional tools for your toolbox for working with complex deployments, building robust solutions, and delivering even more value.

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Develop technical skills beyond LookML along with basic administration for optimizing Looker instances

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This course reviews the processes for creating table calculations, pivots and visualizations

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This course is designed for Looker users who want to create their own ad-hoc reports. It assumes experience of everything covered in our Get Started with Looker course (logging in, finding Looks & dashboards, adjusting filters, and sending data)

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In this course you will discover Liquid, the templating language invented by Shopify and explore how it can be used in Looker to create dynamic links, content, formatting, and more.

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Hands on course covering the main uses of extends and the three primary LookML objects extends are used on as well as some advanced usage of extends.

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This course is designed to teach you about roles, permission sets and model sets. These are areas that are used together to manage what users can do and what they can see in Looker.

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This course aims to introduce you to the basic concepts of Git: what it is and how it's used in Looker. You will also develop an in-depth knowledge of the caching process on the Looker platform, such as why they are used and why they work

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This course provides an introduction to databases and summarized the differences in the main database technologies. This course will also introduce you to Looker and how Looker scales as a modern data platform. In the lessons, you will build and maintain standard Looker data models and establish the foundation necessary to learn Looker's more advanced features.

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Want to learn the core SQL and visualization skills of a Data Analyst? Interested in how to write queries that scale to petabyte-size datasets? Take the BigQuery for Analyst Quest and learn how to query, ingest, optimize, visualize, and even build machine learning models in SQL inside of BigQuery.

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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.

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This course provides an iterative approach to plan, build, launch, and grow a modern, scalable, mature analytics ecosystem and data culture in an organization that consistently achieves established business outcomes. Users will also learn how to design and build a useful, easy-to-use dashboard in Looker. It assumes experience with everything covered in our Getting Started with Looker and Building Reports in Looker courses.

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In this course, we’ll show you how organizations are aligning their BI strategy to most effectively achieve business outcomes with Looker. We'll follow four iterative steps: Plan, Build, Launch, Grow, and provide resources to take into your own services delivery to build Looker with the goal of achieving business outcomes.

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By the end of this course, you should be able to articulate Looker's value propositions and what makes it different from other analytics tools in the market. You should also be able to explain how Looker works, and explain the standard components of successful service delivery.

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