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.
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
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What you'll learn
Identify the data-to-AI lifecycle on Google Cloud and the major products of big data and machine learning.
Design streaming pipelines with Dataflow and Pub/Sub and dDesign streaming pipelines with Dataflow and Pub/Sub.
Identify different options to build machine learning solutions on Google Cloud.
Describe a machine learning workflow and the key steps with Vertex AI and build a machine learning pipeline using AutoML.
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There are 7 modules in this course
This section welcomes learners to the Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals course, and provides an overview of the course structure and goals.
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2 videos
This section explores the key components of Google Cloud's infrastructure. It's here that we introduce many of the big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to AI lifecycle on Google Cloud.
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10 videos1 reading1 quiz1 app item
This section introduces Google Cloud's solution to managing streaming data. It examines an end-to-end pipeline, including data ingestion with Pub/Sub, data processing with Dataflow, and data visualization with Looker and Looker Studio.
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9 videos1 reading1 quiz1 app item
This section introduces learners to BigQuery, Google's fully-managed, serverless data warehouse. It also explores BigQuery ML, and the processes and key commands that are used to build custom machine learning models.
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9 videos1 reading1 quiz1 app item
This section explores four different options to build machine learning models on Google Cloud. It also introduces Vertex AI, Google's unified platform for building and managing the lifecycle of ML projects.
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8 videos1 reading1 quiz
This section focuses on the three key phases--data preparation, model training, and model preparation--of the machine learning workflow in Vertex AI. Learners get the opportunity to practice building a machine learning model with AutoML.
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8 videos1 reading1 quiz1 app item
This section reviews the topics covered in the course, and provides additional resources for further learning.
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Before enrolling in this course, participants should have roughly one (1) year of experience with one or more of the following:
• A common query language such as SQL
• Extract, transform, load activities
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• Programming in Python
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