All right, let's get you set up on the labs platform that

we're using as part of this course, that's give Qwiklabs.

Now let's go through how you're actually going to access each of these labs,

and perform a lot of the work that we're going ask you during that specialization.

As you work your way through these lessons in Coursera,

you're going to start to see labs at the end.

Each lab is clearly going to say lab,

and in the title of the lab,

in this case we're looking at the very first lab which is

getting you started with a Qwiklabs, which is lab zero.

So what you going to do inside of Coursera is go out and click on that lab title,

and then inside of Coursera in the lower right hand corner,

you can see a button that says open tool.

That will actually launch Qwiklabs in another tab in your browser.

Once inside of Qwiklabs,

you'll see a start lab button,

and a timer count down,

as soon as you click start lab.

Each of the labs are timed,

but note that we have padded the estimates line especially for the more complicated labs,

upwards of 30 to 60 minutes for you to play around inside the lab and perform the work.

Once you do click that start button,

credentials are automatically generated for you on the left hand side,

so make note of your username and password.

Now once you've got that username and password,

the next step they're going to ask you do is actually open up an incognito window,

and type in console.cloud.google.com,

which is going to the logon page for Google Cloud platform.

And you notice a big yellow button that says

Open Google Console and this won't open in an incognito window,

and you might get some issues if you already

signed in to some of the Google cloud products,

if you have those for your personal accounts.

So incognito window first, type in console.cloud.google.com,

and then log in to Google Cloud platform with those auto generated Qwiklabs credentials,

which will then give you access to your sendbox environment for the purposes of this lab.

And once you've gone through that lab and you've completed it,

when you feel confident, you're ready to move on,

you can actually click end lab,

which will remove all of your resources,

bring you back into the lecture,

and you can continue on with the course.

And one last note, is if you're worried about

that time counting down to the end of the lab,

is you actually get three attempts for each lab.

So even if you don't complete it within the required amount of time,

don't worry you can attempt it a second or third time,

or if you wanted additional practice,

you can always reopen the lab and practice it again later on down the road.

Lab 0 Overview

Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery

Meet the Instructors

Lab 0 Overview

Exploring ​and ​Preparing ​your ​Data with BigQuery

Meet the Instructors

Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery