Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform
by Giuseppe Ciaburro, V Kishore Ayyadevara, Alexis Perrier, Bryan Fry, Antonio Gulli
BigQuery basics
BigQuery is the data warehouse of Google Analytics. It is basically a fully managed, petabyte and low-cost tool. BigQuery is NoOps: the term NoOps (short for no operation) identifies an IT environment so automated and abstracted from the underlying infrastructure that does not require a dedicated team to manage the software internally. In fact, in BigQuery there is no infrastructure to manage and a database administrator is not required. The time saved can be used to analyze data in order to find meaningful information. To form queries in BigQuery we can use a familiar SQL syntax, very simple to learn, and extremely effective. But the real convenience in using this technology comes from the actual savings due to the pay-as-you-go ...
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