Google dominates the Data Science Market

How Google’s Workspace can simplify your Companies Data Processes

During the last few years, a lot has changed in the daily work of employees. Instead of working on desktop PCs with programs such as MS Word or Excel installed, they now work on Smartbooks from home offices and with SaaS-based office products. Google has really shaken up the market with its Google Workspace and offers a cloud-based, low-cost toolset for all cases. Whether word replacement, spreadsheets or video calls. However, what is overlooked is the fact that entire processes can be simplified with the help of Google’s Workspace, even in the area of Data Integration and Data Science. Let’s take a closer look into it.

In the world of Data Science and Self-Service-BI your Data Analyst/Scientist and BI users will also need data from external systems like open API’s, data from sheets, websites and so on. Therefore, tools like Google Sheets could be a great solution to implement a data flow easily. During my working experiences, I came across Google Sheets and its’ great add-ons that provide possibilities for automated data processes for BigQuery:

Get data from a website or a file

With build-in-functions you can fetch data from any website (e.g. HTML tables) or linked files like CSV or TSV [1].

Transform your data

For geocoding my address data I once had to merge three columns into one, separated by commas. Therefore, I used the Sheets’ add-on called Power-Tools:

With this great add-on, you can easily merge and combine data, find duplicates, randomize data and much more without any coding. This could be a great advantage for users without a deeper knowledge of databases. Here, Google Marketplace offers a wide range of helpful add-ons.

Normally you would connect your Google Sheets to BigQuery and load table data into your sheets to visualize it in bar charts, pie charts, etc. But you can also use Sheets as a…

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