On-demand activities

Find the right on-demand learning activities for you. Labs are short learning activities that teach you a specific lesson by giving you direct, temporary, hands-on access to real cloud resources. Courses are longer activities, consisting of several modules made of videos, documents, hands-on labs and quizzes. Finally, quests are similar, but are usually shorter and contain only labs.

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    Creating Permanent Tables and Access-Controlled Views in BigQuery

    This lab focuses on how to create new permanent reporting tables and logical reviews from an existing ecommerce dataset.

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    Predict Taxi Fare with a BigQuery ML Forecasting Model

    In this lab, you explore millions of New York City yellow taxi cab trips available in a BigQuery Public Dataset, create a machine learning model inside of BigQuery to predict the fare, and evaluate the performance of your model to make predictions.

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    Extract, Analyze, and Translate Text from Images with the Cloud ML APIs

    Use the Cloud Vision, Natural Language, and Translation APIs to capture text strings from images, recognize characters, and analyze and translate the text strings into other languages.

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    BigQuery: Qwik Start - Console

    This lab shows you how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the Web UI. Watch the short videos Get Meaningful Insights with Google BigQuery and BigQuery: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.

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    Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Console

    This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Cloud console. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.

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    APIs Explorer: Cloud Storage

    In this lab you will use the APIs Explorer tool to create Cloud Storage buckets, upload data to the bucket, and remove content from buckets.

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    App Engine: Qwik Start - PHP

    This hands-on lab shows you how to create a small App Engine application that displays a short message. Watch the short video Build Apps at Scale with Google App Engine.

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    Using BigQuery in the Google Cloud Console

    This lab shows you how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the GCP Console. Watch the following short video Get Meaningful Insights with Google BigQuery.

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    Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Command Line

    This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Google Cloud command line. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.

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    Dataproc: Qwik Start - Command Line

    This lab shows you how to create a Dataproc cluster, run a simple Apache Spark job in the cluster, and then modify the number of workers in the cluster using the command line. Watch these short videos, Dataproc: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview and Run Spark and Hadoop Faster with Cloud Dataproc.