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Gaston Tavara

Member since 2020

Silver League

6300 points
Develop Your Google Cloud Network Earned марта 18, 2021 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned марта 17, 2021 EDT
Cloud SQL Earned марта 14, 2021 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned марта 13, 2021 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned марта 4, 2021 EST
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned марта 3, 2021 EST
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned февр. 28, 2021 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned февр. 28, 2021 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned февр. 27, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned сент. 23, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure Earned сент. 22, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned сент. 22, 2020 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned сент. 22, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned сент. 17, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 8 Earned сент. 6, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned сент. 2, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 7 Earned авг. 26, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 6 Earned авг. 25, 2020 EDT

Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.

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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery.

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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.

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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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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.

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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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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Data Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.

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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.

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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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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML.

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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights. 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 this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes! Please see the official rules before participating; by entering the Contest, you agree to the Official Rules (“Rules”) available below and that these Rules apply to you.

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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes! Please see the official rules before participating; by entering the Contest, you agree to the Official Rules (“Rules”) available below and that these Rules apply to you.

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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes! Please see the official rules before participating; by entering the Contest, you agree to the Official Rules (“Rules”) available below and that these Rules apply to you.

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