Simplify Data Science Workflows on BigQuery with Fugue and Python

Speed Up Iteration and Cut Computation Cost

Khuyen Tran
Towards Data Science
6 min readApr 13, 2023

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Motivation

Many data teams begin by establishing an analytics practice on data warehouses such as BigQuery. However, solely relying on BigQuery for data science workloads may not be the best approach due to various reasons:

  • Advanced needs beyond SQL: Use cases such as data validation, visualization, and machine learning forecasting may require more advanced functionalities beyond the…

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