NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud

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Qwiklabs
Free Online Course
English
Certificate Available
3 hours worth of material
selfpaced

Overview

In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.

Syllabus

  • Using BigQuery in the Google Cloud Console
    • This lab shows you how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the GCP Console. Watch the following short video Get Meaningful Insights with Google BigQuery.
  • BigQuery: Qwik Start - Command Line
    • This hands-on lab shows you how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the Command Line Interface. Watch the short videos Get Meaningful Insights with Google BigQuery and BigQuery: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.
  • Introduction to SQL for BigQuery and Cloud SQL
    • In this lab you will learn fundamental SQL clauses and will get hands on practice running structuredqueries on BigQuery and Cloud SQL.
  • Exploring NCAA Data with BigQuery
    • Use BigQuery to explore the NCAA dataset of basketball games, teams, and players. The data covers plays from 2009 and scores from 1996. Watch How the NCAA is using Google Cloud to tap into decades of sports data.
  • Bracketology with Google Machine Learning
    • In this lab you use Machine Learning (ML) to analyze the public NCAA dataset and predict NCAA tournament brackets.