Course Outline

Module 1

Introducing Google Cloud Platform

  • Identify the different aspects of Google Cloud’s infrastructure.

  • Identify the big data and ML products that form Google Cloud.

Module 2

Recommending Products Using Cloud SQL and Spark

  • Review how businesses use recommendation models.

  • Evaluate how and where you will compute and store your housing rental model results.

  • Analyze how running Hadoop in the cloud with Dataproc can enable scale.

  • Evaluate different approaches for storing recommendation data off-cluster.

Module 3

Predicting Visitor Purchases Using BigQuery ML

  • Analyze big data at scale with BigQuery.

  • Learn how BigQuery processes queries and stores data at scale.

  • Walkthrough key ML terms: features, labels, training data.

  • Evaluate the different types of models for structured datasets.

  • Create custom ML models with BigQuery ML.

Module 4

Real-time Dashboards with Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Google Data Studio

  • Identify modern data pipeline challenges and how to solve them at scale with Dataflow.

  • Design streaming pipelines with Apache Beam.

  • Build collaborative real-time dashboards with Data Studio.

Module 5

Deriving Insights from Unstructured Data Using Machine Learning

  • Evaluate how businesses use unstructured ML models and how the models work.

  • Choose the right approach for machine learning models between pre-built and custom.

  • Create a high-performing custom image classification model with no code using AutoML.

Module 6

Summary

  • Recap of key learning points.

  • Resources.