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T-GCFR-BOfficial Google Curriculum

Google Cloud Fundamentals for Researchers

1 dayILTIntroductory0

Overview

Learn how to use various tools in Google Cloud to ingest, manage and leverage your data to derive insights in your research.

What You'll Learn

  • Understand products available in Google Cloud for research
  • Load unstructured and structured data into Google Cloud
  • Manage access and sharing your data on Google Cloud
  • Understand costs on Google Cloud
  • Leverage Jupyter Notebook environments in Vertex AI Workbench
  • Utilize machine learning solutions on Google Cloud

Who Should Attend

Customers

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of data types and SQL; Basic programming knowledge; Machine learning models such as supervised versus unsupervised models

Products Covered

Compute EngineCloud StorageBigQueryLooker StudioVertex AI WorkbenchVertex AI AutoML

Course Modules

1

Google Cloud Demos for Researchers

Topics

  • Demo: Provision Compute Engine virtual machines
  • Demo: Query a billion rows of data in seconds using BigQuery
  • Demo: Train a custom vision model using AutoML Vision

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore research use cases in Google Cloud through interactive demos.
2

Google Cloud Project Concepts

Topics

  • Organizing resources in Google Cloud
  • Controlling Access to projects and resources
  • Cost and billing management

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand how resources in Google Cloud are managed across organizations, folders and projects.
  • Control access to projects and resources using IAM
  • Explore billing in Google Cloud
3

Computing and Storage in Google Cloud

Topics

  • Interacting with Google Cloud
  • Create and Manage Cloud Storage Buckets
  • Compute Engine virtual machines
  • Understanding computing costs
  • Introduction to HPC on Google Cloud

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the methods of interacting with Google Cloud
  • Store your data in Cloud Storage buckets
  • Provision Compute Engine virtual machines
  • Understand computing costs on Google Cloud
  • Explore how you can create HPC clusters on Google Cloud

Activities

Lab: Create and Manage a Virtual Machine (Linux) and Cloud StorageOptional Lab: Deploy an HPC Cluster with Slurm
4

BigQuery

Topics

  • BigQuery fundamentals
  • Querying public datasets
  • Importing and exporting data in BigQuery
  • Connecting to Looker Studio

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the fundamentals of BigQuery
  • Query public datasets in BigQuery Studio
  • Manage datasets in BigQuery
  • Connect data in BigQuery to Looker Studio

Activities

Lab: BigQuery and Looker Studio Fundamentals
5

Notebooks on Vertex AI

Topics

  • Vertex AI
  • Vertex AI Workbench
  • Connecting Jupyter notebooks to BigQuery

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore Vertex AI as a machine learning platform
  • Provision Jupyter notebooks using Vertex AI Workbench

Activities

Lab: Interacting with BigQuery using Python and R Running in Jupyter Notebooks
6

Machine Learning on Google Cloud

Topics

  • ML Options on Google Cloud
  • Prebuilt ML APIs
  • Vertex AI AutoML
  • BigQuery ML

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore machine learning options on Google Cloud
  • Understand unstructured data using prebuilt ML APIs
  • Create no-code custom ML models using Vertex AI AutoML
  • Create custom ML models using SQL on BigQuery ML

Activities

Optional Lab: Extract, Analyze, and Translate Text from Images with the Cloud ML APIsOptional Lab: Identify Damaged Car Parts with Vertex AutoML VisionOptional Lab: Getting Started with BigQuery Machine Learning

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Course Details

Course Code
T-GCFR-B
Duration
1 day
Format
ILT
Level
Introductory
Modules
6
Activities
5
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