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