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This course introduces the AI and machine learning (ML) offerings on Google Cloud that build both predictive and generative AI projects. It explores the technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI life cycle, encompassing AI foundations, development, and solutions. It aims to help data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers enhance their skills and knowledge through engaging learning experiences and practical hands-on exercises.

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Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Dataplex to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Dataplex. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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In this course, you learn about containers and how to build, and package container images. The content in this course includes best practices for creating and securing containers, and provides an introduction to Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine for application developers.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: architecting and building serverless web applications with Firebase, utilizing Firestore for database management, automating deployment processes using Cloud Build, and integrating Google Assistant functionality into your applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

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This course, Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud. As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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This short course on integrating applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro models on Google Cloud helps you discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models. The course teaches you how to access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code. It lets you test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.

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In the last installment of the Dataflow course series, we will introduce the components of the Dataflow operational model. We will examine tools and techniques for troubleshooting and optimizing pipeline performance. We will then review testing, deployment, and reliability best practices for Dataflow pipelines. We will conclude with a review of Templates, which makes it easy to scale Dataflow pipelines to organizations with hundreds of users. These lessons will help ensure that your data platform is stable and resilient to unanticipated circumstances.

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In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: performing core AlloyDB operations and tasks, migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL, administering an AlloyDB database, and accelerating analytical queries using the AlloyDB Columnar Engine. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Create and Manage Bigtable Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating instances, designing schemas, querying data, and performing administrative tasks in Bigtable including monitoring performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Learners will get hands-on practice using Vertex AI Feature Store's streaming ingestion at the SDK layer.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and interacting with Cloud Spanner instances and databases; loading Cloud Spanner databases using various techniques; backing up Cloud Spanner databases; defining schemas and understanding query plans; and deploying a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner instance. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating, configuring, and managing Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances and databases. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Migrate MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Services skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service and migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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This course is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs participants move databases to Google Cloud while taking advantage of various services. This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.

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Gemini for Google Workspace is an add-on that provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this mini-course, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Gmail.

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Gemini for Google Workspace is an add-on that provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this learning path, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Google Workspace.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps engineers manage infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to find and understand application logs, create a GKE cluster, and investigate how to create a build environment. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the DevOps workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you secure your cloud environment and resources. You learn how to deploy example workloads into an environment in Google Cloud, identify security misconfigurations with Gemini, and remediate security misconfigurations with Gemini. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves your cloud security posture. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps network engineers create, update, and maintain VPC networks. You learn how to prompt Gemini to provide specific guidance for your networking tasks, beyond what you would receive from a search engine. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini makes it easier for you to work with Google Cloud VPC networks. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps analyze customer data and predict product sales. You also learn how to identify, categorize, and develop new customers using customer data in BigQuery. Using hands-on labs, you experience how Gemini improves data analysis and machine learning workflows. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 7 AI principles.

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate components from the Google Cloud ecosystem. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to create repeatable deployments by treating infrastructure as code, choose the appropriate application execution environment for an application, and monitor application performance. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer.

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to develop more secure applications, implement federated identity management, and integrate application components by using messaging, event-driven processing, and API gateways. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the second course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance course.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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This course describes different types of computer vision use cases and then highlights different machine learning strategies for solving these use cases. The strategies vary from experimenting with pre-built ML models through pre-built ML APIs and AutoML Vision to building custom image classifiers using linear models, deep neural network (DNN) models or convolutional neural network (CNN) models. The course shows how to improve a model's accuracy with augmentation, feature extraction, and fine-tuning hyperparameters while trying to avoid overfitting the data. The course also looks at practical issues that arise, for example, when one doesn't have enough data and how to incorporate the latest research findings into different models. Learners will get hands-on practice building and optimizing their own image classification models on a variety of public datasets in the labs they will work on.

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In this course, you will be learning from ML Engineers and Trainers who work with the state-of-the-art development of ML pipelines here at Google Cloud. The first few modules will cover about TensorFlow Extended (or TFX), which is Google’s production machine learning platform based on TensorFlow for management of ML pipelines and metadata. You will learn about pipeline components and pipeline orchestration with TFX. You will also learn how you can automate your pipeline through continuous integration and continuous deployment, and how to manage ML metadata. Then we will change focus to discuss how we can automate and reuse ML pipelines across multiple ML frameworks such as tensorflow, pytorch, scikit learn, and xgboost. You will also learn how to use another tool on Google Cloud, Cloud Composer, to orchestrate your continuous training pipelines. And finally, we will go over how to use MLflow for managing the complete machine learning life cycle.

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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine Learning Engineering professionals use tools for continuous improvement and evaluation of deployed models. They work with (or can be) Data Scientists, who develop models, to enable velocity and rigor in deploying the best performing models.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions with Vertex AI course, where you will learn how to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, AutoML, and custom training services to train, evaluate, tune, explain, and deploy machine learning models. This skill badge course is for professional Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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In this course, you apply your knowledge of classification models and embeddings to build a ML pipeline that functions as a recommendation engine. This is the fifth and final course of the Advanced Machine Learning on Google Cloud series.

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This course introduces the products and solutions to solve NLP problems on Google Cloud. Additionally, it explores the processes, techniques, and tools to develop an NLP project with neural networks by using Vertex AI and TensorFlow.

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This course covers how to implement the various flavors of production ML systems— static, dynamic, and continuous training; static and dynamic inference; and batch and online processing. You delve into TensorFlow abstraction levels, the various options for doing distributed training, and how to write distributed training models with custom estimators. This is the second course of the Advanced Machine Learning on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Image Understanding with TensorFlow on Google Cloud course.

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This course takes a real-world approach to the ML Workflow through a case study. An ML team faces several ML business requirements and use cases. The team must understand the tools required for data management and governance and consider the best approach for data preprocessing. The team is presented with three options to build ML models for two use cases. The course explains why they would use AutoML, BigQuery ML, or custom training to achieve their objectives.

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This course explores the benefits of using Vertex AI Feature Store, how to improve the accuracy of ML models, and how to find which data columns make the most useful features. This course also includes content and labs on feature engineering using BigQuery ML, Keras, and TensorFlow.

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This course covers building ML models with TensorFlow and Keras, improving the accuracy of ML models and writing ML models for scaled use.

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The course begins with a discussion about data: how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis. We describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code. You will understand the benefits of Big Query ML. We then discuss how to optimize a machine learning (ML) model and how generalization and sampling can help assess the quality of ML models for custom training.

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This course explores what ML is and what problems it can solve. The course also discusses best practices for implementing machine learning. You’re introduced to Vertex AI, a unified platform to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models. The course discusses the five phases of converting a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning, and why it’s important to not skip them. The course ends with recognizing the biases that ML can amplify and how to recognize them.

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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.

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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.

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Data pipelines typically fall under one of the Extract and Load (EL), Extract, Load and Transform (ELT) or Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) paradigms. This course describes which paradigm should be used and when for batch data. Furthermore, this course covers several technologies on Google Cloud for data transformation including BigQuery, executing Spark on Dataproc, pipeline graphs in Cloud Data Fusion and serverless data processing with Dataflow. Learners get hands-on experience building data pipeline components on Google Cloud using Qwiklabs.

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The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment. This is the first course of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud course.

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Processing streaming data is becoming increasingly popular as streaming enables businesses to get real-time metrics on business operations. This course covers how to build streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud. Pub/Sub is described for handling incoming streaming data. The course also covers how to apply aggregations and transformations to streaming data using Dataflow, and how to store processed records to BigQuery or Bigtable for analysis. Learners get hands-on experience building streaming data pipeline components on Google Cloud by using QwikLabs.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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These labs help you get started with the skills you need to develop and train ML models. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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These labs help you get started with the skills you need to analyze sports-related data. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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This is the second of two Quests of hands-on labs derived from the exercises from the book Data Science on Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition by Valliappa Lakshmanan, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. In this second Quest, covering chapter 9 through the end of the book, you extend the skills practiced in the first Quest, and run full-fledged machine learning jobs with state-of-the-art tools and real-world data sets, all using Google Cloud tools and services.

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Welcome to the Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge! These labs help you get started with data analysis skills. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network. For practice with BigQuery fundamentals (including working with the console and command line), complete the course titled BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts.

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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data plus track! "The Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer certification is associated with the highest paying salary in IT," according to the most recent Global Knowledge skills and salary report (published August 2021). Complete this game to earn the Data Plus game badge, and be eligible for a +bonus+ prize in the Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge. See "what's next" below for details and requirements; you’ll need to earn at least 2 additional challenge badges to qualify. You'll learn next-level data skills to add to your resume. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!

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In this quest, you will gain hands-on experience on several topics in Google Workspace Administration including security, provisioning users and groups, managing applications, and managing Google Meet.

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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge security track! These eight labs give you the keys to understanding GCP's powerful security suite. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with securing your cloud. Complete this game to earn the Security game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!

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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge architecture track! These eight labs give you a blueprint of GCP's building blocks. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with another tool or service to add to your resume. Complete this game to earn the Architecture game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!

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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data track! These eight labs give you a deep dive into GCP's data universe. At the end of each lab, you'll have another in-demand skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Data game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!

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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge! These eight labs give you a quick hands-on introduction to eight different GCP tools and services. At the end of each lab, you'll have another skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Essentials game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!

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Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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In honor of the Launch of the Google Cloud Community and the Learning & Certification Hub (bit.ly/3gNtlMB), we’ve devised a fun little game to catapult your skills in BigQuery and give you a chance to win the First. Ever. Community. Learning. Challenge. (Pause for effect) Not only will participating in this game give you hands-on practice to boost key skills in BQ, but simply participating will earn you some sweet online badges. Plus, the winner of the game will be rewarded...handsomely . More details below... Complete every activity in this game and earn a Skill Badge which you can share across your network with pride. Complete every activity AND post a screenshot of your newly minted Skill Badge in the Learning Forum area of the Community (bit.ly/35LoLIB) to earn a special Community Badge which you can then flaunt over other community members shamelessly. The Community member at the top of the scoreboard at the time the game is closed will be rewarded with something objectively …

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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other catalog offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataprep, to Cloud Composer, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation, too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Engineer Data in the Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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This is the first of two Quests of hands-on labs is derived from the exercises from the book Data Science on Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition by Valliappa Lakshmanan, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. In this first Quest, covering up through chapter 8, you are given the opportunity to practice all aspects of ingestion, preparation, processing, querying, exploring and visualizing data sets using Google Cloud tools and services.

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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn how to harness serious Google Cloud computing power to run big data and machine learning jobs. The hands-on labs will give you use cases, and you will be tasked with implementing big data and machine learning practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From running Big Query analytics on tens of thousands of basketball games, to training TensorFlow image classifiers, you will quickly see why Google Cloud is the go-to platform for running big data and machine learning jobs.

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