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Connecting to and querying BigQuery from Python

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Post Details
Company
Hex
Date Published
Author
Izzy Miller
Word Count
1,370
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Summary

This tutorial guides users through connecting to a Google BigQuery warehouse using Python. The process involves installing the official Google Cloud Python Client (google-cloud-bigquery), authenticating and connecting to the data warehouse, running queries, reading data from a BigQuery query into a pandas DataFrame, and writing a DataFrame back into a BigQuery table. The tutorial also provides tips on setting up virtual environments and using public datasets for testing purposes.