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Mairead McGrath

Member since 2020

Bronze League

1800 points
Dog Day Speedrun Earned Aug 27, 2020 EDT
Datastax on Google Cloud Speedrun Earned Aug 20, 2020 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned Jun 18, 2020 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned Jun 16, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: Infrastructure Modernization Earned Jun 15, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs Earned Jun 15, 2020 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Jun 15, 2020 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned Jun 12, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned Jun 12, 2020 EDT
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud Earned Jun 11, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud Earned Jun 8, 2020 EDT
Intro to ML: Image Processing Earned Jun 5, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #4: BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned May 25, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #3: Intermediate ML Earned May 18, 2020 EDT
Intro to ML: Language Processing Earned May 12, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #2: Intro to ML: Language Processing Earned May 11, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #1: Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned May 10, 2020 EDT

Need a pick-me-up? There's a lab for that! And this time, we mean the canine type. Join today's game for labs (both the GCP training kind and the canines) and general appreciation for all the good boys and girls on International Dog Day. Rated 14/10, would boop that pup's nose.

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Practice your skills in this hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a set of relevant labs for Datastax on Google Cloud. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes!

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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.

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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.

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Learn how you can migrate and modernize your workloads on Google's global, secure, and reliable infrastructure. Not sure how to choose the best path to the cloud for your company? Get hands-on experience with the console and see what works for you in these labs. Our goal is to help you take advantage of GCP's high performance computing, to turn your bold ideas into big discoveries with cost-effective, scalable infrastructure.

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Google Cloud Application Programming Interfaces are the mechanism to interact with Google Cloud Services programmatically. This quest will give you hands-on practice with a variety of GCP APIs, which you will learn through working with Google’s APIs Explorer, a tool that allows you to browse APIs and run their methods interactively. By learning how to transfer data between Cloud Storage buckets, deploy Compute Engine instances, configure Dataproc clusters and much more, Exploring APIs will show you how powerful APIs are and why they are used almost exclusively by proficient GCP users. Enroll in this quest today.

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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 Managed Service for Apache Spark, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other catalog offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataprep, to Cloud Composer, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation, too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Engineer Data in the Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like BigQuery, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

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TensorFlow is an open source software library for high performance numerical computation that's great for writing models that can train and run on platforms ranging from your laptop to a fleet of servers in the Cloud to an edge device. This quest takes you beyond the basics of using predefined models and teaches you how to build, train and deploy your own on Google Cloud.

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In this quest, you will learn about Google Cloud’s IoT Core service and its integration with other services like GCS, Dataprep, Stackdriver and Firestore. The labs in this quest use simulator code to mimic IOT devices and the learning here should empower you to implement the same streaming pipeline with real world IoT devices.

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Using large scale computing power to recognize patterns and "read" images is one of the foundational technologies in AI, from self-driving cars to facial recognition. The Google Cloud Platform provides world class speed and accuracy via systems that can utilized by simply calling APIs. With these and a host of other APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to image processing by taking labs that will enable you to label images, detect faces and landmarks, as well as extract, analyze, and translate text from within images.

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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with BigQuery and Machine Learning. Learn some interesting concepts with BigQuery Qwik start and use them in day to day scenarios. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.

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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with Machine Learning. Learn intermediate machine learning skills with Google Cloud. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.

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It’s no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to language processing by taking labs that will enable you to extract entities from text, and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis as well as use the Speech to Text API for transcription.

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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with Machine Learning. Learn about Natural Language API and get hands on experience on other services as well. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.

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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with BigQuery. Learn some interesting concepts like BigQuery Qwik start and Cloud ML Engine. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.

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