G Suite with Joanna Smith and Alicia Williams

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/dontmesswithjo">Joanna Smith</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/presactlyalicia">Alicia Williams</a> talk G Suite with <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> this week! G Suite is Google’s collection of apps to help make working easier. It includes things like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and more and is designed to be collaborative. It’s customizable, allowing users to adjust the programs to their needs and be more effective – including integrating it with Google Cloud! G Suite has an active community of developers building add-ons to increase functionality as well.</p> <h5 id="joanna-smith">Joanna Smith</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/dontmesswithjo">Joanna</a> is a Developer Advocate for G Suite, working to make sure that anyone can extend G Suite with clever solutions to make Google work for them.</p> <h5 id="alicia-williams">Alicia Williams</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/presactlyalicia">Alicia</a> is an advocate for Google Cloud, trying to help data analysts solve problems. She uses machine learning, SQL, and visualizations to help solve problems and tell stories.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>A dataset of congressional bills and built a text classification model with AutoML Natural Language by Sara Robinson <a href="https://twitter.com/SRobTweets/status/1057995132933431301">tweet</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@srobtweets/classifying-congressional-bills-with-machine-learning-d6d769d818fd"> blog</a></li> <li>Serverless from the ground up: Connecting Cloud Functions with a database (Part 3) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/serverless-from-the-ground-up-connecting-cloud-functions-with-a-database-part-3"> blog</a></li> <li>How 20th Century Fox uses ML to predict a movie audience <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-20th-century-fox-uses-ml-to-predict-a-movie-audience"> blog</a></li> <li>Kick off developer projects with improved G Suite Developer Hub <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/kick-off-developer-projects-with-improved-g-suite-developer-hub"> blog</a></li> <li>This multiplayer game integrates Open Match, a highly-scalable, open source matchmaking framework from Google Cloud, Unity <a href="https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/1057795749822582784">tweet</a>, and <a href="https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2018">Google Doodle</a></li> <li>Happy Anniversary, Melanie!</li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>G Suite <a href="https://gsuite.google.com">site</a></li> <li>Google Sheets <a href="https://www.google.com/sheets/about/">site</a></li> <li>G Suite on Google Plus <a href="https://plus.google.com/+gsuite">site</a></li> <li>G Suite Marketplace <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/">site</a></li> <li>G Suite on Github <a href="https://github.com/gsuitedevs">site</a></li> <li>G Suite APIs <a href="https://developers.google.com/gsuite/aspects/apis/overview">site</a></li> <li>G Suite App Maker <a href="https://developers.google.com/gsuite/aspects/appmaker/overview">site</a></li> <li>Building IoT Applications on Google Cloud <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYaprBSDy8A">video</a></li> <li>Firestore Google Apps Script Library <a href="https://github.com/grahamearley/FirestoreGoogleAppsScript">site</a></li> <li>Build on G Suite <a href="https://developers.google.com/gsuite/">site</a></li> <li>Advanced Services Documentation <a href="https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/advanced#enabling_advanced_services"> site</a></li> <li>BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/">site</a></li> <li>New Google Sheets enterprise data integrations with BigQuery and SAP <a href="https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/07/google-sheets-bigquery-SAP-integrations.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Analyze big data within Google Sheets <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__sheets-dataconnectors.html"> site</a></li> <li>Analyzing text in a Google Sheet using Cloud Natural Language API and Apps Script <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/analyzing-text-in-a-google-sheet-using-cloud-natural-language-api-and-apps-script"> blog</a></li> <li>Entity sentiment analysis on text data in a Google sheet using Cloud Natural Language Github <a href="https://gist.github.com/aliciawilliams/2f27bb592d16109c8c977dab5302af13"> site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/open-in-cloud-shell">What if I want to write a code sample with a link that opens the Cloud Console and automatically clones a Git repository into Cloud Shell?</a></p> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Alicia will be at <a href="https://devfest.withgoogle.com">DevFest</a>.</p> <p>Mark will be at <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018/"> KubeCon</a> in December.</p> <p>Melanie will be at <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/socml-2018/home">SOCML</a> this month.</p>