April 2024
Beginner
704 pages
15h 59m
English
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Chapter 3
Using Big Data from Google Cloud
IN THIS CHAPTER
Accessing really big data
Using Google Cloud BigQuery
Building your first queries
Visualizing results with Matplotlib
Up to this point, you've been dealing with relatively small sets of data. In this chapter, you use big data from the Medicare database and then very big data from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) that changes every hour!
Even if you have access to a powerful enough computer to download large datasets like these, not every big dataset can be downloaded. Some datasets can't be downloaded legally. And in the case of the air-quality database from NOAA, you would have to download a new version every hour. In cases like these, it’s better to leave the data where it is and use the cloud. In addition, when you let the cloud do the database and analysis work, your computer doesn’t have to be very big or very fast.
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What Is Big Data?
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