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Oscar Enrique Motta Cruz

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Implement Multimodal Vector Search with BigQuery Earned авг. 9, 2025 EDT
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery Earned авг. 7, 2025 EDT
Work with Gemini Models in BigQuery Earned авг. 6, 2025 EDT
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned июля 20, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned мая 21, 2025 EDT
Understanding LookML in Looker Earned нояб. 28, 2022 EST
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned нояб. 16, 2022 EST
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker Earned нояб. 14, 2022 EST
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned июля 8, 2022 EDT
Migrate MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service Earned июня 6, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals Earned июня 2, 2022 EDT
Developing Data Models with LookML Earned мая 27, 2022 EDT
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned мая 24, 2022 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud Earned мая 16, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Applying BigQuery ML's Classification, Regression, and Demand Forecasting for Retail Applications Earned мая 16, 2022 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned мая 16, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned мая 13, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned мая 13, 2022 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned мая 13, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Marketing Analysts Earned мая 12, 2022 EDT
Cloud Engineering Earned мая 10, 2022 EDT
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud Earned мая 10, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned мая 10, 2022 EDT
Data Catalog Fundamentals Earned мая 6, 2022 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned мая 5, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned мая 5, 2022 EDT
Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud Earned мая 4, 2022 EDT
Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery Earned мая 3, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned апр. 28, 2022 EDT
Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights Earned апр. 27, 2022 EDT
Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery Earned апр. 20, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned апр. 10, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned апр. 8, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned апр. 5, 2022 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned марта 30, 2022 EDT

Complete the intermediate Implement Multimodal Vector Search with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Gemini in BigQuery to generate and debug SQL, conduct sentiment analysis, summarize text and identify keywords, generate embeddings, create a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, and implement multimodal vector search. 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 explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.

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This course demonstrates how to use AI/ML models for generative AI tasks in BigQuery. Through a practical use case involving customer relationship management, you learn the workflow of solving a business problem with Gemini models. To facilitate comprehension, the course also provides step-by-step guidance through coding solutions using both SQL queries and Python notebooks.

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This course explores Gemini in BigQuery, a suite of AI-driven features to assist data-to-AI workflow. These features include data exploration and preparation, code generation and troubleshooting, and workflow discovery and visualization. Through conceptual explanations, a practical use case, and hands-on labs, the course empowers data practitioners to boost their productivity and expedite the development pipeline.

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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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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.

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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.

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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization. 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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Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals 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 empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.

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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.

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In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.

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In this course you will learn how to use several BigQuery ML features to improve retail use cases. Predict the demand for bike rentals in NYC with demand forecasting, and see how to use BigQuery ML for a classification task that predicts the likelihood of a website visitor making a purchase.

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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.

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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights. 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 this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Want to build ML models in minutes instead of hours using just SQL? BigQuery ML democratizes machine learning by letting data analysts create, train, evaluate, and predict with machine learning models using existing SQL tools and skills. In this series of labs, you will experiment with different model types and learn what makes a good model.

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Want to turn your marketing data into insights and build dashboards? Bring all of your data into one place for large-scale analysis and model building. Get repeatable, scalable, and valuable insights into your data by learning how to query it and using BigQuery. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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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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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. You can still complete this course if you want to. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog (https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog). Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, understand, and manage all of their data. In this quest you will start small by learning how to search and tag data assets and metadata with Data Catalog. After learning how to build your own tag templates that map to BigQuery table data, you will learn how to build MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer to Data Catalog Connectors.

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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: write SQL queries, query public tables, load sample data into BigQuery, troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery, and create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data. 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 this course, we define what machine learning is and how it can benefit your business. You'll see a few demos of ML in action and learn key ML terms like instances, features, and labels. In the interactive labs, you will practice invoking the pretrained ML APIs available as well as build your own Machine Learning models using just SQL with BigQuery ML.

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The third course in this course series is Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery. Here we will build on your growing knowledge of SQL as we dive into advanced functions and how to break apart a complex query into manageable steps. We will cover the internal architecture of BigQuery (column-based sharded storage) and advanced SQL topics like nested and repeated fields through the use of Arrays and Structs. Lastly we will dive into optimizing your queries for performance and how you can secure your data through authorized views. After completing this course, enroll in the Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud course.

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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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This is the second course in the Data to Insights course series. Here we will cover how to ingest new external datasets into BigQuery and visualize them with Looker Studio. We will also cover intermediate SQL concepts like multi-table JOINs and UNIONs which will allow you to analyze data across multiple data sources. Note: Even if you have a background in SQL, there are BigQuery specifics (like handling query cache and table wildcards) that may be new to you. After completing this course, enroll in the Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery course.

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In this course, we see what the common challenges faced by data analysts are and how to solve them with the big data tools on Google Cloud. You’ll pick up some SQL along the way and become very familiar with using BigQuery and Dataprep to analyze and transform your datasets. This is the first course of the From Data to Insights with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights course.

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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub. 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 skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

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