>>> By enrolling in this specialization you agree to the Qwiklabs Terms of Service as set out in the FAQ and located at: https://qwiklabs.com/terms_of_service <<< ***COMPLETION CHALLENGE; receive a GCP t-shirt, see more below.*** This five-week specialization provides participants a hands-on introduction to designing and building data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform. Participants will learn how to design data processing systems, build end-to-end data pipelines, analyze data and carry out machine learning. This course teaches the following skills: • Design and build data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform • Leverage unstructured data using Spark and ML APIs on Cloud Dataproc • Process batch and streaming data by implementing autoscaling data pipelines on Cloud Dataflow • Derive business insights from extremely large datasets using Google BigQuery • Train, evaluate and predict using machine learning models using Tensorflow and Cloud ML • Enable instant insights from streaming data This class is intended for developers who are responsible for: • Extracting, Loading, Transforming, cleaning, and validating data • Designing pipelines and architectures for data processing • Creating and maintaining machine learning and statistical models • Querying datasets, visualizing query results and creating reports COMPLETION CHALLENGE-Complete any GCP specialization from Oct 23 - Nov 30, 2018 to participate. Check Discussion Forums for full details.