GSP160

Overview

BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without managing infrastructure or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and takes advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

We have a newly available dataset for NCAA Basketball games, teams, and players. The game data covers play-by-play and box scores back to 2009, as well as final scores back to 1996. Additional data about wins and losses goes back to the 1894-5 season in some teams' cases.

In this lab we will find and query the NCAA dataset using BigQuery.

What you'll learn

• Using BigQuery

• Query the NCAA Public Dataset

• Writing and executing queries

What you'll need

• A Google Cloud Platform Project

• A Browser, such Chrome or Firefox