Google Cloud Talks - BigQuery and Cloud Spin

We have two great Google Cloud talks for the evening:

• BigQuery - why, where and how to use BigQuery demonstrated with large public data sets

• Cloud Spin - a fun imaging app that is a use case that explains building apps with Android and Firebase.

Both talks will leave you with tangible examples that you can take away with you study, modify and learn.

This event is co-organized with Boston Android and the Boston Analytic Club.

An in-depth look at Google BigQuery Architecture by Felipe Hoffa of Google

Come learn about Google BigQuery and its underlying architecture. Felipe will recount the evolution of BigQuery and explain the underlying principles of BigQuery and Dremel. Felipe will describe a few of the latest use cases and will demonstrate a use case of Google BigQuery

Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world. Follow Felipe on Twitter at @felipehoffa (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa).

Cloud Spin - how to build rigging and software to take a 180 degree animated image

Cloud Spin is a project built to demonstrate Firebase and Android. Multiple Android smartphone cameras are synchronized to record videos that render a 180 animated image. Here’s what the team did:

• Built physical staging rig to hold the Android smartphones

• Orchestrated video recording on all the phones with Firebase

• Recorded and saved the video using the Camera API

• Uploaded the video to Google Cloud Platform for processing

You’ll get to see the prototype rig, get a 180-spin shot of yourself and hear how the mobile and cloud apps were built. You can learn more about Cloud Spin here (http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/09/Cloud-Spin-Part-1-180-degree-animations-on-Google-Cloud-Platform.html), and see the latest cloud spin images on Twitter at https://twitter.com/googlecloudspin (http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/09/Cloud-Spin-Part-1-180-degree-animations-on-Google-Cloud-Platform.html)

Ray Tsang is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive hands on cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences. Follow Ray at @saturnism (https://twttier.com/saturnism).

Bret McGowen is a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform team. Prior to Google, Bret worked at a variety of enterprises and startups, including at Rackspace as a software engineer. Follow Bret at @bretmcg (https://twitter.com/bretmcg).