Using Google Bigquery for Data Analytics in Research and Education
Using Google Bigquery for Data Analytics in Research and Education

Summary/Abstract: Big data has been generating increased attention among researchers, scholars, businesses, media and even consumers. The trend of "big data growth" presents enormous challenges, but it also provides immense research and business opportunities. Large number of companies are entering this area and are developing and offering a wide spectrum of solutions and platforms. Google’s BigQuery platform does not require infrastructural knowledge, and is one of the data analytics tools with shortest learning curve, which makes it very suitable for education in Data Science and introduction to Big Data. The performance of the platform and the flexible pricing model makes it also very suitable for Data analytics research, although the tool itself currently does not cover of all the phases of the Data science process.

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