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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Big Data and Machine Learning

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.

Who should attend this course?

This class is intended for the following:

  • Data analysts, data scientists, and business analysts who are getting started with Google Cloud
  • Individuals responsible for designing pipelines and architectures for data processing, creating and maintaining machine learning and statistical models, querying datasets, visualizing query results, and creating reports
  • Executives and IT decision makers evaluating Google Cloud for use by data scientists
Prerequisites

Basic understanding of one or more of the following:

  • Database query language such as SQL
  • Data engineering workflow from extract, transform, load, to analysis, modeling, and deployment
  • Machine learning models such as supervised versus unsupervised models

This course teaches participants the following skills:

  • Recognize 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.
  • Analyze big data at scale with BigQuery.
  • Identify different options to build machine learning solutions on Google Cloud.
  • Describe a machine learning workflow and the key steps with Vertex AI.
  • Build a machine learning pipeline using AutoML.

Module 1: Big Data and Machine Learning on Google Cloud

  • Identify the different aspects of Google Cloud’s infrastructure.
  • Identify the big data and machine learning products on Google Cloud.
  • Lab: Exploring a BigQuery Public Dataset

Module 2: Data Engineering for Streaming Data

  • Describe an end-to-end streaming data workflow from ingestion to data visualization.
  • Identify modern data pipeline challenges and how to solve them at scale with Dataflow.
  • Build collaborative real-time dashboards with data visualization tools.
  • Lab: Creating a Streaming Data Pipeline for a Real-Time Dashboard with Dataflow

Module 3: Big Data with BigQuery

  • Describe the essentials of BigQuery as a data warehouse.
  • Explain how BigQuery processes queries and stores data.
  • Define BigQuery ML project phases.
  • Build a custom machine learning model with BigQuery ML.
  • Lab: Predicting Visitor Purchases Using BigQuery ML

Module 4: Machine Learning Options on Google Cloud

  • Identify different options to build ML models on Google Cloud.
  • Define Vertex AI and its major features and benefits.
  • Describe AI solutions in both horizontal and vertical markets.

Module 5: The Machine Learning Workflow with Vertex AI

  • Describe a ML workflow and the key steps.
  • Identify the tools and products to support each stage.
  • Build an end-to-end ML workflow using AutoML.
  • Lab: Vertex AI: Predicting Loan Risk with AutoML

Module 5: Course Summary

  • This section reviews the topics covered in the course and provides additional resources for further learning.
  • Describe the data-to-AI lifecycle on Google Cloud and identify the major products of big data and machine learning.

Practical information

Duration

Publish

Languages

EN

Price

€ 695 + 21% VAT

Location

Virtual Class

Schedule

Guaranteed to run

Sessions in English
12/03/2025Book
16/05/2025Book
08/09/2025Book
01/12/2025Book
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