Big Data
Automating Data Pipelines With BigQuery And Fivetran
Companies from every industry vertical, including finance, retail, logistics, and others, all share a common horizontal analytics challenge: How do they best understand the market for their products? Solving this problem requires companies to conduct a detailed marketing, sales, and finance analysis to understand their place within the larger market. These analyses are designed to …
The Privacy paradox: We Claim We Care About Our Data, So Why Don’t Our Actions Match?
Imagine how you’d feel if you discovered footage from your private home security camera had been broadcast over the internet. This is exactly what happened to several unsuspecting Australians last month, when the website Insecam streamed their personal lives online. According to an ABC report, Insecam broadcasts live streams of dozens of Australian businesses and …
Equinix Becomes A Google Cloud Premier Partner
Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it has become a Google Cloud Premier Partner. The partnership enables enterprises to more easily connect and migrate priority workloads to Google Cloud. Global IT strategies are increasingly moving toward hybrid multicloud solutions as businesses leverage the flexibility and scalability these architectures offer. Equinix provides private …
COVID-19 Public Dataset Program: Making Data Freely Accessible For Better Public Outcomes
Data always plays a critical role in the ability to research, study, and combat public health emergencies, and nowhere is this more true than in the case of a global crisis. Access to data sets—and tools that can analyze that data at cloud scale—are increasingly essential to the research process, and are particularly necessary in …
Introduction To Data Analysis Using GCP BigQuery And Python
Overview This guide provides an intro to the GCP BigQuery and how it can be used for data analysis. It also shows how to query the data using Python. Prerequisites Access to Google Cloud Console Installed Python on your machine. Refer to the following for Ubuntu and Windows installation. Installed Google Cloud SDK. Refer …
How Is Big Data Changing Financial Markets?
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence transformed the way we live. With so much information flowing through servers each day, a lot of our capabilities have been improved. Finance is one of the sectors that handles and analyses huge amounts of data daily. It is heavily reliant on real-time information and has greatly benefited from the …
Google Cloud Next 2019 | NYC Strong: Intelligence, Security, and Response on GCP
Google Cloud Next 2019 | Government Sessions Google Cloud Next 2019 | NYC Strong: Intelligence, Security, and Response on GCP Creating a secure cyber infrastructure becomes more challenging each and every day. Organizations are requiring a broader and deeper understanding of threat intelligence data to secure our networks and defend against threats. Regardless of scale, …
How The Cloud Is Transforming Weather Prediction
We’ve come a long way since annual weather forecasts from the Farmer’s Almanac were the basis for how we planned, planted, or invested. Today, there’s a large, growing market for precise, relevant weather information to improve business and government operation. Weather predictions have become a significant strategic advantage, helping ensure uninterrupted service, boosting weather-related sales, …
The Biggest IoT Stories Of 2018
Back in April, we announced our intention to invest $5 billion in the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next five years. The importance of this commitment has become even clearer since, as technology has already evolved, customers have innovated, and possibilities have grown. As 2018 draws to a close, here’s a look back at the topics …