From the course: Rust for Data Engineering

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.

Exploring data with BigQuery

Exploring data with BigQuery - Rust Tutorial

From the course: Rust for Data Engineering

Exploring data with BigQuery

- [Instructor] One of the more powerful tools on the Google Cloud platform to explore data is BigQuery. If we take a look at this overview here we see that you could compose a new query, add some data even upload a local file. So there's a lot of easy ways to get started but probably one of the most powerful is to use the public dataset. So if we go ahead and we take a look at a existing Google Trends dataset here this is a great way to dive into understanding how to use a particular dataset. The first thing that I typically will do is look at you know, what the metadata is about this particular dataset you can see it was last modified September 20th, 2022. And this is a Google Trends dataset. Now, if I wanted to go ahead and query it a good way to do that is to go to the toggle node and you can see the different sections of this particular dataset. And in particular let's say I wanted to look at some top terms, right?…

Contents