In this article, I’ll walk you through the process of building a machine learning model using BigQuery ML. As a bonus, we’ll have the chance to use BigQuery’s support for spatial functions. We’ll use the New York City taxicab dataset, with the goal of predicting taxi fare, given both pick-up and drop-off locations for each ride — imagine that we are designing a trip planner.
July was a huge month for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the BI space. Thoughtspot raised $145 million, Salesforce acquired Datorama, Workday acquired Stories.bi and Tableau acquired Empirical Systems.
We’re delighted that Yellowfin has been awarded a place on the public sector’s G-Cloud 10 (G10) framework, which enables us to supply British public sector organisations with the Yellowfin platform more easily.
In this month’s installment of What’s Happening in BigQuery, we’re sharing new features intended to make your life easier: some make BigQuery more performant and more cost effective, while others, like BigQuery ML, enable groundbreaking analysis tools in a cloud data warehouse that’s a first of its kind. First off, we just finished Next ‘18, our annual event focused on all things cloud.
