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Create Engaging Video with Google Vids Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Gemini in Google Drive Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Gemini in Google Meet Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Gemini in Google Sheets Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Gemini in Google Slides Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Gemini in Google Docs Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Gemini in Gmail Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Introduction to Gemini for Google Workspace Earned Jan 16, 2025 EST
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned Jan 15, 2025 EST
Data Management and Storage in the Cloud Earned Nov 30, 2024 EST
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned Nov 11, 2024 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Nov 7, 2024 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Nov 6, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Earned Nov 6, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Earned Nov 5, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Earned Oct 31, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned Oct 21, 2024 EDT
The Power of Storytelling: How to Visualize Data in the Cloud Earned Oct 14, 2024 EDT
Put It All Together: Prepare for a Cloud Data Analyst Job Earned Oct 13, 2024 EDT
Data Transformation in the Cloud Earned Sep 23, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Data Analytics in Google Cloud Earned Sep 10, 2024 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned Aug 19, 2024 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Jul 8, 2024 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Jul 8, 2024 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Jul 8, 2024 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Feb 5, 2024 EST
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Jan 26, 2024 EST
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Jan 26, 2024 EST
Data Catalog Fundamentals Earned Nov 7, 2023 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned Sep 28, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Data Analytics on Google Cloud Earned Sep 18, 2023 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned Sep 18, 2023 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned Sep 6, 2023 EDT
Developing Data Models with LookML Earned Sep 1, 2023 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Aug 28, 2023 EDT
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned Aug 21, 2023 EDT
Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud Earned Aug 15, 2023 EDT
Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery Earned Jul 26, 2023 EDT
Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights Earned Jul 19, 2023 EDT
Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery Earned Jun 22, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Jun 16, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI Earned Jun 9, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Jun 9, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Jun 2, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned Jun 2, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Jun 2, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned Jun 1, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned Jun 1, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Jun 1, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jun 1, 2023 EDT

In this course, you'll learn about Google Vids, an online video creation and editing app available to select Google Workspace users. Through lessons and demos, you'll learn how to build and tell compelling stories through video at work. You'll also discover how to seamlessly incorporate media, audio and video clips, customize styles, and easily share your creations. Some Vids features use generative AI to help you work more efficiently. Remember, generative AI tools including Gemini, may suggest inaccurate or inappropriate information. Don’t rely on Gemini features as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice. It’s also important to remember that the Gemini feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides users with access to generative AI features. This course delves into the capabilities of Gemini in Google Drive using video lessons, hands-on activities and practical examples. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently utilize Gemini in Google Drive to improve your workflows.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with access to generative AI features. This course delves into the capabilities of Gemini in Google Meet. Through video lessons, hands-on activities and practical examples, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Gemini features in Google Meet. You learn how to use Gemini to generate background images, improve your video quality, and translate captions. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently utilize Gemini in Google Meet to maximize the effectiveness of your video conferences.

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Gemini for Google Workspace 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 Google Sheets.

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Gemini for Google Workspace 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 Google Slides.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with access to generative AI features. This course delves into the capabilities of Gemini in Google Docs using video lessons, hands-on activities and practical examples. You learn how to use Gemini to generate written content based on prompts. You also explore using Gemini to edit text you’ve already written, helping you improve your overall productivity. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently utilize Gemini in Google Docs to improve your writing.

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Gemini for Google Workspace 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 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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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge course 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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This is the second of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore how data is structured and organized. You’ll gain hands-on experience with the data lakehouse architecture and cloud components like BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and DataProc to efficiently store, analyze, and process large datasets.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.

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

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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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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This final course in the series reviews managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud further by earning Skill Badges.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.

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This is the fourth of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll focus on developing skills in the five key stages of visualizing data in the cloud: storytelling, planning, exploring data, building visualizations, and sharing data with others. You’ll also gain experience using UI/UX skills to wireframe impactful, cloud-native visualizations and work with cloud-native data visualization tools to explore datasets, create reports, and build dashboards that drive decisions and foster collaboration.

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This is the fifth of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll combine and apply the foundational knowledge and skills from courses 1-4 in a hands-on Capstone project that focuses on the full data lifecycle project. You’ll practice using cloud-based tools to acquire, store, process, analyze, visualize, and communicate data insights effectively. By the end of the course, you’ll have completed a project demonstrating their proficiency in effectively structuring data from multiple sources, presenting solutions to varied stakeholders, and visualizing data insights using cloud-based software. You’ll also update your resume and practice interview techniques to help prepare for applying and interviewing for jobs.

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This is the third of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll begin by getting an overview of the data journey, from collection to insights. You’ll then learn how to use SQL to transform raw data into a usable format. Next, you’ll learn how to transform high volumes of data with a data pipeline. Finally, you’ll gain experience applying transformation strategies to real data sets to solve business needs.

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This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll define the field of cloud data analysis and describe roles and responsibilities of a cloud data analyst as they relate to data acquisition, storage, processing, and visualization. You’ll explore the architecture of Google Cloud-based tools, like BigQuery and Cloud Storage, and how they are used to effectively structure, present, and report data.

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This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.

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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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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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In this beginner-level course, you will learn about the Data Analytics workflow on Google Cloud and the tools you can use to explore, analyze, and visualize data and share your findings with stakeholders. Using a case study along with hands-on labs, lectures, and quizzes/demos, the course will demonstrate how to go from raw datasets to clean data to impactful visualizations and dashboards. Whether you already work with data and want to learn how to be successful on Google Cloud, or you’re looking to progress in your career, this course will help you get started. Almost anyone who performs or uses data analysis in their work can benefit from this course.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course 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.Create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge course 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.

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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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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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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 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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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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The Generative AI Explorer - Vertex Quest is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the models in the Vertex AI PaLM API family, including text-bison, chat-bison, and textembedding-gecko. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via Vertex AI custom training and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint.

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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.

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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 3 AI principles.

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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.

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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.

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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images

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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 introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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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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