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Mauro Rivera

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Google DeepMind: 07 Accelerate Your Model Earned мая 29, 2026 EDT
Google DeepMind: 05 Fine-Tune Your Model Earned мая 29, 2026 EDT
Google DeepMind: 04 Discover The Transformer Architecture Earned мая 29, 2026 EDT
Google DeepMind: 03 Design And Train Neural Networks Earned мая 29, 2026 EDT
Google DeepMind: 02 Represent Your Language Data Earned мая 28, 2026 EDT
Google DeepMind: Train A Small Language Model Earned мая 28, 2026 EDT
Google DeepMind: 01 Build Your Own Small Language Model Earned мая 28, 2026 EDT
Introduction to Gemini Enterprise Earned мая 27, 2026 EDT
Understand Google Cloud Agents Earned мая 27, 2026 EDT
Strategies for Cloud Security Risk Management Earned нояб. 12, 2025 EST
Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing Earned нояб. 10, 2025 EST
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey Earned окт. 14, 2025 EDT
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned июля 23, 2025 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned июля 23, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Looker Earned июля 22, 2025 EDT
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned дек. 30, 2024 EST
Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog Earned дек. 27, 2024 EST
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned дек. 27, 2024 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines Earned дек. 19, 2024 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations Earned дек. 6, 2024 EST
Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned дек. 6, 2024 EST
Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned дек. 6, 2024 EST
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud Earned дек. 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud Earned дек. 5, 2024 EST
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned дек. 5, 2024 EST
Responsible AI for Digital Leaders with Google Cloud Earned сент. 24, 2024 EDT

Train more powerful models with a single GPU. In this course, you will learn how hardware can speed up model training and the key considerations when training models on a GPU. First, you will learn how to estimate the number of computations and the amount of computer memory required to train large neural networks. You will then discover techniques for reducing the computing and memory requirements when training a model. Techniques which you will apply for fine-tuning a Gemma model with 4 billion parameters. Finally, you will consider the potential environmental impacts of machine learning, with a focus on where questions of energy, water, and e-waste intersect with justice and equity.

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Unleash the power of language models with fine-tuning. In this course, you will learn how to adjust a pre-trained model to a specific task. You will start with full-parameter fine-tuning using a small language model. To tune larger models like Gemma, you will learn parameter-efficient techniques with a focus on LoRA. Finally, you will be briefly introduced to reinforcement learning as an alternative to supervised fine-tuning (SFT). You will also explore how AI is imagined and made sense of in cultural contexts. You will consider why responsible AI is not just about technical safety but also about building governance systems that reflect community values and protect the public interest.

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In this Google DeepMind course you will discover the mechanisms of the transformer architecture. You will investigate how transformer language models process prompts to make context-sensitive next-token predictions. Through practical activities you will explore the attention mechanism, visualize attention weights, and encounter advanced concepts like masked attention and multi-head attention. You will also learn other techniques that are necessary to build neural networks that are well-suited to be used as language models. Finally, through activities on values, stakeholder mapping and community engagement, you will practice concrete tools for ensuring AI projects are developed with communities, not just for them.

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In this Google DeepMind course you will focus on the training process for machine learning models. You will learn how to spot and mitigate issues when training a model, such as overfitting and underfitting. In practical coding labs, you will implement and evaluate the multilayer perceptron for simple classification tasks. This will provide insights into the mechanics of training a neural network model and the backpropagation algorithm. Research case studies will demonstrate how neural networks power real-world models. Additionally, you will consider the broader social impacts of innovation by looking beyond immediate benefits to anticipate potential risks, safety concerns, and further-reaching societal consequences.

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In this Google DeepMind course you will learn how to prepare text data for language models to process. You will investigate the tools and techniques used to prepare, structure, and represent text data for language models, with a focus on tokenization and embeddings. You will be encouraged to think critically about the decisions behind data preparation, and what biases within the data may be introduced into models. You will analyze trade-offs, learn how to work with vectors and matrices, how meaning is represented in language models. Finally, you will practice designing a dataset ethically using the Data Cards process, ensuring transparency, accountability, and respect for community values in AI development.

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Complete the advanced Google DeepMind: Train A Small Language Model skill badge by completing this course to demonstrate skills in the following: formulating real-world language model research problems; building a simple tokenizer; preparing a dataset for training a transformer language model; running the training loop of a small language model. Access this lab at no-cost by signing up for the no-cost subscription. Receive 35 free credits each month!

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In this Google DeepMind course, you will learn the fundamentals of language models and gain a high-level understanding of the machine learning development pipeline. You will consider the strengths and limitations of traditional n-gram models and advanced transformer models. Practical coding labs will enable you to develop insights into how machine learning models work and how they can be used to generate text and identify patterns in language. Through real-world case studies, you will build an understanding around how research engineers operate. Drawing on these insights you will identify problems that you wish to tackle in your own community and consider how to leverage the power of machine learning responsibly to address these problems within a global and local context.

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This course introduces Gemini Enteprise, a powerful platform that brings together AI agents, enterprise search, NotebookLM, and intelligent data access to solve organizational challenges. Through real-world examples and hands-on exploration, learners will be able to connect Gemini Enterprise capabilities to real business needs, describe its architecture, and explain how it handles data access and privacy across roles.

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This course provides a comprehensive overview of Google Cloud's agent platforms, Gemini Enterprise app, Conversational Agents, Customer Experience (CX) Studio, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Agent Development Kit. Learners will understand the unique capabilities of each offering, distinguish between the optimal solution for specific use cases, and gain foundational knowledge in creating search and chat applications.

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This is the second of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore widely-used cloud risk management frameworks, exploring security domains, compliance lifecycles, and industry standards such as HIPAA, NIST CSF, and SOC. You'll develop skills in risk identification, implementation of security controls, compliance evaluation, and data protection management. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with Google Cloud and multi-cloud tools specific to risk and compliance. This course also incorporates job application and interview preparation techniques, offering a comprehensive foundation to understand and effectively navigate the complex landscape of cloud risk management.

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This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.

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This course helps learners prepare for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer (PCSE) Certification exam. Learners will be exposed to and engage with exam topics through a series of lectures, diagnostic questions, and knowledge checks. After completing this course, learners will have a personalized workbook that will guide them through the rest of their certification readiness journey.

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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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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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In this introductory course, you'll learn how Looker can help you explore, analyze, and visualize your data to drive better decisions. Through a combination of video lectures and demos, you'll discover how to connect to various data sources, build interactive dashboards, and perform effective data analysis. Whether you're a data analyst, BI analyst, data scientist or business user, this course will equip you with the foundational knowledge to start using Looker effectively, regardless of your background.

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This course explores Gemini in BigQuery, a suite of AI-driven features to assist data-to-AI workflow. These features include data exploration and preparation, code generation and troubleshooting, and workflow discovery and visualization. Through conceptual explanations, a practical use case, and hands-on labs, the course empowers data practitioners to boost their productivity and expedite the development pipeline.

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Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Knowledge Catalog to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Knowledge Catalog.

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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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In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.

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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.

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In this course you will get hands-on in order to work through real-world challenges faced when building streaming data pipelines. The primary focus is on managing continuous, unbounded data with Google Cloud products.

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In this intermediate course, you will learn to design, build, and optimize robust batch data pipelines on Google Cloud. Moving beyond fundamental data handling, you will explore large-scale data transformations and efficient workflow orchestration, essential for timely business intelligence and critical reporting. Get hands-on practice using Dataflow for Apache Beam and Serverless for Apache Spark (Dataproc Serverless) for implementation, and tackle crucial considerations for data quality, monitoring, and alerting to ensure pipeline reliability and operational excellence. A basic knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud concepts is recommended.

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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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In this course, you learn about data engineering on Google Cloud, the roles and responsibilities of data engineers, and how those map to offerings provided by Google Cloud. You also learn about ways to address data engineering challenges.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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This course equips learners with the essential knowledge and practical tools to develop and implement artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly. Through an exploration of ethical considerations, best practices, and governance procedures, participants will gain an understanding of how to navigate the complex landscape of AI while upholding ethical standards and minimizing potential risks.

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