getting_started_r_bigquery

A repository holding educational materials related to the R/Medicine 2024 workshop on R and BigQuery.

Topics

In this workshop, we'll cover the following topics:

Cloud: Getting Started With GCP

What is "the Cloud"?
Getting started with Google Cloud Platform (for free!)
Services we'll use
- BigQuery: GCP's data warehousing solution
- Vertex AI Workbench:
Services we won't use (but might be useful later!)
- RStudio Server
- GCS

BigQuery

BigQuery public data: We'll be using two public datasets for this workshop:
- Births Data Summary from the Centers for Disease Control
- Area Deprivation Index (ADI), provided by BroadStreet
We'll use BigQuery to do some data selection