Googles BigQuery and Looker get agents to simplify analytics tasks [Video]

The agents integrated with BigQuery, Looker, and Colab will come at no additional cost, the company said.

Google has added new agents to its BigQuery data warehouse and Looker business intelligence platform to help data practitioners automate and simplify analytics tasks.

The data agents, announced at the company’s Google Cloud Next conference, include a data engineering and data science agent — both of which have been made generally available.

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The data engineering agent, which is embedded inside BigQuery, is designed to help data practitioners by delivering support to build data pipelines, perform data preparation, and automate metadata generation.

According to Google, the data engineering agent will simplify and accelerate analytics tasks as data practitioners, typically, have to spend a majority chunk of their time creating a pipeline for data and preparing data to get actionable insights from it.

Another capability …