Dataset Reference

This section contains reference material on some of the major datasets we store in BigQuery. Reading this section front to back is not recommended. Instead, identify a dataset you'd like to understand better and read through the relevant documentation. After reading the tutorial, you should know all you need about the dataset.

Detailed per-table docs are available in the Data Catalog.

Each tutorial should include:

• Introduction
  • A short overview of why we built the dataset and what need it's meant to solve
  • What data source the data is collected from, and a high level overview of how the data is organized
  • How it is stored and how to access the data
• Reference
  • An example query to give the reader an idea of what the data looks like and how it is meant to be used
  • How the data is processed and sampled
  • How frequently it's updated, and how it's scheduled
  • An up-to-date schema for the dataset
  • How to augment or modify the dataset