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Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform

  • Course Code GO5975
  • Duration 4 days

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  • Public Classroom

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  • Virtual Learning

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Course Overview

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This four-day instructor-led Goolge Cloud Platform class provides participants a hands-on introduction to designing and building data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hand-on labs, participants will learn how to design data processing systems, build end-to-end data pipelines, analyze data, and carry out machine learning. The course covers structured, unstructured, and streaming data.

Course Schedule

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    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 03-06 June, 2024
    • Location: Virtual
    • Ver: 2.2.1

    eur2.375,00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 14-17 October, 2024
    • Location: Virtual
    • Ver: 2.2.1

    eur2.375,00

Target Audience

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This class is intended for experienced developers who are responsible for managing big data transformations including:

  • Extracting, Loading, Transforming, cleaning, and validating data
  • Designing pipelines and architectures for data processing
  • Creating and maintaining machine learning and statistical models
  • Querying datasets, visualizing query results, and creating reports


 

Course Objectives

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This course teaches participants the following skills:

  • Design and build data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform
  • Process batch and streaming data by implementing autoscaling data pipelines on Cloud Dataflow
  • Derive business insights from extremely large datasets using Google BigQuery
  • Train, evaluate, and predict using machine learning models using Tensorflow and Cloud ML
  • Leverage unstructured data using Spark and ML APIs on Cloud Dataproc
  • Enable instant insights from streaming data

 

Course Content

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Module 1: Introduction to Data Engineering

  • Explore the role of a data engineer
  • Analyze data engineering challenges
  • Intro to BigQuery
  • Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
  • Demo: Federated Queries with BigQuery
  • Transactional Databases vs Data Warehouses
  • Website Demo: Finding PII in your dataset with DLP API
  • Partner effectively with other data teams
  • Manage data access and governance
  • Build production-ready pipelines
  • Review GCP customer case study
  • Lab: Analyzing Data with BigQuery

Module 2: Building a Data Lake

  • Introduction to Data Lakes
  • Data Storage and ETL options on GCP
  • Building a Data Lake using Cloud Storage
  • Optional Demo: Optimizing cost with Google Cloud Storage classes and Cloud Functions
  • Securing Cloud Storage
  • Storing All Sorts of Data Types
  • Video Demo: Running federated queries on Parquet and ORC files in BigQuery
  • Cloud SQL as a relational Data Lake
  • Lab: Loading Taxi Data into Cloud SQL

Module 3: Building a Data Warehouse

  • The modern data warehouse
  • Intro to BigQuery
  • Demo: Query TB+ of data in seconds
  • Getting Started
  • Loading Data
  • Video Demo: Querying Cloud SQL from BigQuery
  • Lab: Loading Data into BigQuery
  • Exploring Schemas
  • Demo: Exploring BigQuery Public Datasets with SQL using INFORMATION_SCHEMA
  • Schema Design
  • Nested and Repeated Fields
  • Demo: Nested and repeated fields in BigQuery
  • Lab: Working with JSON and Array data in BigQuery
  • Optimizing with Partitioning and Clustering
  • Demo: Partitioned and Clustered Tables in BigQuery
  • Preview: Transforming Batch and Streaming Data

Module 4: Introduction to Building Batch Data Pipelines

  • EL, ELT, ETL
  • Quality considerations
  • How to carry out operations in BigQuery
  • Demo: ELT to improve data quality in BigQuery
  • Shortcomings
  • ETL to solve data quality issues

Module 5: Executing Spark on Cloud Dataproc

  • The Hadoop ecosystem
  • Running Hadoop on Cloud Dataproc
  • GCS instead of HDFS
  • Optimizing Dataproc
  • Lab: Running Apache Spark jobs on Cloud Dataproc

Module 6: Serverless Data Processing with Cloud Dataflow

  • Cloud Dataflow
  • Why customers value Dataflow
  • Dataflow Pipelines
  • Lab: A Simple Dataflow Pipeline (Python/Java)
  • Lab: MapReduce in Dataflow (Python/Java)
  • Lab: Side Inputs (Python/Java)
  • Dataflow Templates
  • Dataflow SQL

Module 7: Manage Data Pipelines with Cloud Data Fusion and Cloud Composer

  • Building Batch Data Pipelines visually with Cloud Data Fusion
  • Components
  • UI Overview
  • Building a Pipeline
  • Exploring Data using Wrangler
  • Lab: Building and executing a pipeline graph in Cloud Data Fusion
  • Orchestrating work between GCP services with Cloud Composer
  • Apache Airflow Environment
  • DAGs and Operators
  • Workflow Scheduling
  • Optional Long Demo: Event-triggered Loading of data with Cloud Composer, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Lab: An Introduction to Cloud Composer

Module 8: Introduction to Processing Streaming Data

  • Processing Streaming Data

Module 9: Serverless Messaging with Cloud Pub/Sub

  • Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Lab: Publish Streaming Data into Pub/Sub

Module 10: Cloud Dataflow Streaming Features

  • Cloud Dataflow Streaming Features
  • Lab: Streaming Data Pipelines

Module 11: High-Throughput BigQuery and Bigtable Streaming Features

  • BigQuery Streaming Features
  • Lab: Streaming Analytics and Dashboards
  • Cloud Bigtable
  • Lab: Streaming Data Pipelines into Bigtable

Module 12: Advanced BigQuery Functionality and Performance

  • Analytic Window Functions
  • Using With Clauses
  • GIS Functions
  • Demo: Mapping Fastest Growing Zip Codes with BigQuery GeoViz
  • Performance Considerations
  • Lab: Optimizing your BigQuery Queries for Performance
  • Optional Lab: Creating Date-Partitioned Tables in BigQuery

Module 13: Introduction to Analytics and AI

  • What is AI?
  • From Ad-hoc Data Analysis to Data Driven Decisions
  • Options for ML models on GCP

Module 14: Prebuilt ML model APIs for Unstructured Data

  • Unstructured Data is Hard
  • ML APIs for Enriching Data
  • Lab: Using the Natural Language API to Classify Unstructured Text

Module 15: Big Data Analytics with Cloud AI Platform Notebooks

  • What’s a Notebook
  • BigQuery Magic and Ties to Pandas
  • Lab: BigQuery in Jupyter Labs on AI Platform

Module 16: Production ML Pipelines with Kubeflow

  • Ways to do ML on GCP
  • Kubeflow
  • AI Hub
  • Lab: Running AI models on Kubeflow

Module 17: Custom Model building with SQL in BigQuery ML

  • BigQuery ML for Quick Model Building
  • Demo: Train a model with BigQuery ML to predict NYC taxi fares
  • Supported Models
  • Lab Option 1: Predict Bike Trip Duration with a Regression Model in BQML
  • Lab Option 2: Movie Recommendations in BigQuery ML

Module 18: Custom Model building with Cloud AutoML

  • Why Auto ML?
  • Auto ML Vision
  • Auto ML NLP
  • Auto ML Tables

Course Prerequisites

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To get the most out of this course, participants should have

  • Completed Google Cloud Basics: Great Machine and Data Learning course OR have equivalent experience
  • Basic knowledge of the most common query language, such as SQL
  • Experience in data modeling, extraction, transformation, loading activities
  • Application development using a common programming language such as Python

Familiarity with machine learning and/or statistics
 

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