Data on GCP

Introduction to GCP

Nabeel Imam

Content Developer at DataCamp

Data-driven culture

  • Data is an asset
    • Drives operations and strategies
  • From intuition to evidence-based decisions

Workers in a team use data to perform different tasks, e.g. writing reports, presenting analyses, and making strategy.

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Data-driven culture

The role of the cloud
  • Vast storage in the cloud
  • Real-time processing and analysis
  • Responsive and dynamic business practices

The cloud serves as a central hub of data for different teams performing data analyses and formulating strategy.

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Decoding data types

Structured

Data in a table arranged in rows and columns.

  • Row-column table structure
  • Follows rigid schema
    • Hard to scale
  • Google Cloud SQL

Logo of Google Cloud SQL

Unstructured

Various types of unstructured data like audio, video and text.

  • Multimedia files and data objects

  • No common structure ("non-relational")

    • Flexible and easy to scale

  • Google Cloud StorageLogo of Google Cloud Storage

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Semi-structured data

Trees

An org chart showing a CEO at the top and their direct reports.

  • Non-relational but semi-structured

Key-value pairs

  • One key links to one or many values

    • E.g. the English dictionary

    A screenshot of a page of a dictionary showing multiple definitions of a single word.

  • One key could have one or multiple values

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Semi-structured data

Flexible, scalable, and fast
  • Used to store
    • Emails and social media posts
    • Insurance claims
    • Health records

GCP Bigtable

Logo of Google Bigtable

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GCP in retail

A woman uses a laptop in a clothing store, while a customer browses.

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GCP in retail

Coud SQL: inventory and sales

A person uses a tablet device to check items in a warehouse.

Bigtable: social media posts and profiles

A person uses a mobile device to access social media.

Cloud Storage: multimedia files

A person uses their mobile device to access files of various types, such as pictures, audio, video, etc.

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