Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>If you have ever wanted to play with huge datasets - this is the episode for you! Partner Operations Manager Mike Hamberg and Program Manager Will Curran join your co-hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> to talk through all the public datasets that Google Cloud Platform hosts for you on BigQuery and Google Compute Storage.</p> <h5 id="about-mike-hamberg">About Mike Hamberg</h5> <p>Mike works on helping Google teams and partners take raw data from the web and make it look beautiful and usable in BigQuery (and other platforms like Merchant Center).</p> <h5 id="about-will-curran">About Will Curran</h5> <p>Will is a program manager in Google Cloud, focused on Data and Analytics partners and passionate about improving access to the world’s datasets.<br /> One of the programs he manages is the Cloud Public Datasets program.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region - open now <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/Google-Cloud-Region-in-Sydney.html"> announcement</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/">locations</a></li> <li>Why We’re Moving to Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://bugfender.com/blog/google-cloud-platform-vs-amazon-web-services/"> blog</a></li> <li>Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://medium.com/meilleursagents-engineering/story-of-a-successful-migration-to-google-cloud-platform-6bc7fa0798e8"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Public Datasets <a href="https://cloud.google.com/public-datasets/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/">bigquery</a></li> <li>BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/">site</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Storage <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/">site</a></li> <li>Reddit BigQuery <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/">subreddit</a></li> <li>TIL BigQuery <a href="https://tilwbq.com/">site</a></li> <li>Have a public dataset you want to make public, email <a href="mailto:gcp-public-data@google.com">gcp-public-data@google.com</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>I need better visualisation into my billing and product usage - what can I do?</p> <ul> <li>Visualize GCP Billing using BigQuery and Data Studio <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/visualize-gcp-billing-using-bigquery-and-data-studio-d3e695f90c08"> blog</a> <a href="https://datastudio.google.com/c/u/0/org/UTgoe29uR0C3F1FBAYBSww/reporting/0B7GT7ZlyzUmCZHFhNDlKVENHYmc/page/dizD"> dashboard</a> <a href="https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/data-analytics-pocs:public?pli=1"> demo</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Francesc be running a workshop at <a href="https://qconnewyork.com/">QCon New York</a> on Go tooling based on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBjoTxosSys">this video</a>, after that he’ll be at <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> in Denver!</p> <p>Mark will be hosting the <a href="https://www.playcrafting.com/event/june-playtest-night/">Playcrafting Playtest Night</a> in San Francisco and speaking at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017.html">Google Cloud Summit, New York</a> with in July.</p>
