BigQuery UNNEST: How to work with nested data in BigQuery

We use a common example: un-nesting Firebase event data to facilitate data science analysis

James Green
Towards Data Science
9 min readDec 9, 2020

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BigQuery UNNEST
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We frequently apply machine learning techniques to event-based data in order to generate high-value insights; from predicting customer churn using people’s recent activity of say, a subscription-based product, to…

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