Intermediate Google Cloud for Data Engineers Course

Course Summary

The Intermediate Google Cloud for Data Engineers training course is designed to advance the skills of those students who are already familiar with data engineering capabilities of Google Cloud to build specialized types of data pipelines, including those for machine learning, streaming data analytics, and recommendation systems.

The course starts by exploring data engineering with unbounded data sets and how streaming data analytics pipelines built with Apache Beam and DataFlow compare to alternatives, including lambda architecture. After working on a data pipeline using BigTable, DataFlow, and BigQuery, students will learn about what it takes to create data pipelines for machine learning and recommendation systems. The course will cover the importance of reproducibility when creating training, evaluation, and test data and then will use TensorFlow together with Apache Beam for feature engineering of both structured and unstructured data.

This course is designed for students who have either taken the Introduction to Google Cloud for Data Engineers course or have equivalent knowledge/experience. The course will be conducted on Google Cloud Platform.

Purpose

Learn how to use data engineering on Google Cloud to build specialized data pipelines for large scale streaming data analytics, machine learning, and recommendation systems.

Role

Data Engineer - Software Developer - Technical Manager

Skill Level

Intermediate

Style

Fast Track - Targeted Topic - Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

Apache Spark

Google Cloud

Tensorflow

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Productivity Objectives:

Create data processing pipelines for streaming data analysis and machine learning
Create high performance, internet-scale, low-latency data stores with BigTable
Develop data pipelines to support machine learning model training and serving
Use TensorFlow, DataFlow, and BigQuery for unstructured and structured data pipelines
Design and propose scenarios for large scale data migrations to Google Cloud

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What You'll Learn

In the Intermediate Google Cloud for Data Engineers training course, you'll learn:

Data Engineering for Unbounded Datasets
- Bounded vs. Unbounded Datasets
- Data Velocity vs. Volume + Variety
- Challenges and Solutions for Streaming Data Pipelines
- Lambda Architecture
- Apache Beam and DataFlow
Advanced DataFlow for Streaming Data
- Integration with Cloud Pub/Sub
- Data De-duplication
- Late-arriving and Out-of-order Data
- Session and Sliding Windows
- Watermarks and Triggers
- Pipeline Side Inputs
- DataFlow Templates
Advanced BigQuery for Streaming Data
- Streaming Data Warehousing
- SQL Analysis of Streaming and Batch Data
- De-duplication and Data Consistency
- Cost Estimation and Planning
BigTable
- Use Cases for Low-Latency, Internet-Scale Storage
- Wide-Column NoSQL Storage
- Integration with Colossus Storage
- Queries with HBase API
- Key / Schema Design for BigTable
- BigTable Performance Optimizations
Data Engineering for Machine Learning (ML)
- Machine Learning with Google Cloud
- Data Engineering for the ML Lifecycle
- Introduction to ML Use Cases
- Training, Validation, Test Datasets for ML
- Data Hashing for ML Reproducibility
- Data Engineering for Benchmarks with BigQuery ML
- Machine Learning Model Training vs. Serving
Feature Engineering from Structured Data for ML
- Motivation for Feature Engineering
- Feature Pre-Processing vs. Feature Creation
- SQL and Apache Beam for Feature Engineering
- TensorFlow Transform API
Feature Engineering for Unstructured Image Data for ML
- Image Transforms for Data Augmentation
- Google Colaboratory (Colab)
- TensorFlow Image API
- Image Format Conversion
- Image Resizing, Cropping, and Rotation
- Apache Beam for Image Data Augmentation
Data Engineering for Recommendation Systems
- Recommendation Engines with Transactional Data
- Cloud SQL Databases for Recommendation Data
- Recommendation Engines with Apache Spark MLLib
- Hosting Recommendation Systems with Dataproc
Data Migration to Google Cloud
- Cloud Data Migration Challenges
- Migration Scenarios and Destinations