In this beginner-level course, you will learn about the Data Analytics workflow on Google Cloud and the tools you can use to explore, analyze, and visualize data and share your findings with stakeholders. Using a case study along with hands-on labs, lectures, and quizzes/demos, the course will demonstrate how to go from raw datasets to clean data to impactful visualizations and dashboards. Whether you already work with data and want to learn how to be successful on Google Cloud, or you’re looking to progress in your career, this course will help you get started. Almost anyone who performs or uses data analysis in their work can benefit from this course.
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While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.
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Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies.
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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.
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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.
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This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.
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This course, Google Sheets - Locales, is intended for non-English learners only. If you wish to take this course in English, please enroll in Google Sheets.
In this course we will introduce you to Google Sheets, Google’s cloud-based spreadsheet software, included with Google Workspace.
With Google Sheets, you can create and edit spreadsheets directly in your web browser—no special software is required.
Multiple people can work simultaneously, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically.
You will learn how to open Google Sheets, create a blank spreadsheet, and create a spreadsheet from a template. You will add, import, sort, filter and format your data using Google Sheets and learn how to work across different file types.
Formulas and functions allow you to make quick calculations and better use your data. We will look at creating a basic formula, using functions, and referencing data. You will also learn how to add a chart to your spr…
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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.
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Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. You can still complete this course if you want to. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog (https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog). Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, understand, and manage all of their data. In this quest you will start small by learning how to search and tag data assets and metadata with Data Catalog. After learning how to build your own tag templates that map to BigQuery table data, you will learn how to build MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer to Data Catalog Connectors.
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Want to turn your marketing data into insights and build dashboards? Bring all of your data into one place for large-scale analysis and model building. Get repeatable, scalable, and valuable insights into your data by learning how to query it and using BigQuery. 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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Complete the intermediate Use Functions, Formulas and Charts in Google Sheets skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: analyzing data with functions; visualizing data using charts; and searching, validating, formatting, and displaying data.
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.
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The course begins with a discussion about data: how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis. We describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code. You will understand the benefits of Big Query ML. We then discuss how to optimize a machine learning (ML) model and how generalization and sampling can help assess the quality of ML models for custom training.
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This course explores what ML is and what problems it can solve. The course also discusses best practices for implementing machine learning. You’re introduced to Vertex AI, a unified platform to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models.
The course discusses the five phases of converting a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning, and why it’s important to not skip them. The course ends with recognizing the biases that ML can amplify and how to recognize them.
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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 Dataproc, 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 Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization.
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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 Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.
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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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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.
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In this course, we define what machine learning is and how it can benefit your business. You'll see a few demos of ML in action and learn key ML terms like instances, features, and labels. In the interactive labs, you will practice invoking the pretrained ML APIs available as well as build your own Machine Learning models using just SQL with BigQuery ML.
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The third course in this course series is Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery. Here we will build on your growing knowledge of SQL as we dive into advanced functions and how to break apart a complex query into manageable steps.
We will cover the internal architecture of BigQuery (column-based sharded storage) and advanced SQL topics like nested and repeated fields through the use of Arrays and Structs. Lastly we will dive into optimizing your queries for performance and how you can secure your data through authorized views.
After completing this course, enroll in the Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud course.
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This is the second course in the Data to Insights course series. Here we will cover how to ingest new external datasets into BigQuery and visualize them with Looker Studio. We will also cover intermediate SQL concepts like multi-table JOINs and UNIONs which will allow you to analyze data across multiple data sources.
Note: Even if you have a background in SQL, there are BigQuery specifics (like handling query cache and table wildcards) that may be new to you.
After completing this course, enroll in the Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery course.
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In this course, we see what the common challenges faced by data analysts are and how to solve them with the big data tools on Google Cloud. You’ll pick up some SQL along the way and become very familiar with using BigQuery and Dataprep to analyze and transform your datasets.
This is the first course of the From Data to Insights with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights course.
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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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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.
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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 Big Query, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in.
By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills.
The courses should be completed in the following order:
1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud
4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
This final course in the series reviews managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud further by earning Skill Badges.
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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in.
By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills.
The courses should be completed in the following order:
1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud
4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
This third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.
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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in.
By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills.
The courses should be completed in the following order:
1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud
4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in.
By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills.
The courses should be completed in the following order:
1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud
4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.
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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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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.
Introduction to Data Analytics on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 28, 2023 EDT
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud
Earned Jan 28, 2023 EST
Manage Data Models in Looker
Earned Nov 28, 2022 EST
Build LookML Objects in Looker
Earned Nov 27, 2022 EST
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker
Earned Nov 27, 2022 EST
Developing Data Models with LookML
Earned Nov 27, 2022 EST
Google Sheets - Locales
Earned Nov 12, 2022 EST
Understanding LookML in Looker
Earned Nov 5, 2022 EDT
Data Catalog Fundamentals
Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Marketing Analysts
Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets
Earned Oct 31, 2022 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
Earned Oct 10, 2022 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Oct 10, 2022 EDT
Launching into Machine Learning
Earned Sep 26, 2022 EDT
How Google Does Machine Learning
Earned Sep 17, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 16, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports
Earned Sep 16, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Sep 13, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Sep 11, 2022 EDT
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
Earned Sep 10, 2022 EDT
Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud
Earned Aug 28, 2022 EDT
Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery
Earned Aug 28, 2022 EDT
Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights
Earned Aug 23, 2022 EDT
Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery
Earned Aug 15, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Aug 6, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Earned Jul 23, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned May 4, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
Earned May 2, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud
Earned May 2, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
Earned Apr 28, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Earned Apr 26, 2022 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Apr 4, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Jan 24, 2022 EST