Part _ in a series on working with data in BigQuery on Google Cloud Platform

After finishing my Master’s in Systems Science at PSU, I now have some time to work on my website! Over the next few weeks I’m going to be posting some code and links to past projects. I’d like to start with a project from my Artificial Life class this term - it’s a simple Agent-Based economic model based on a Self-Organized Criticality mechanism. I’ve been interested for a while (since I began my graduate studies, originally in economics) in modeling crisis and…

BigQuery, one of the many services available on Google Cloud Platform, is an enterprise data warehouse which lets you perform fast queries on very large datasets using Google’s infrastructure. You can get started using it free of charge with one of the many publicly available datasets build into GCP.