Create a BigQuery DataFrame from a CSV file in GCS

Use the BigQuery DataFrames API to turn a CSV file in Google Cloud Storage into a BigQuery DataFrame.

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Python

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import bigframes.pandas as bpd

filepath_or_buffer = "gs://cloud-samples-data/bigquery/us-states/us-states.csv"
df_from_gcs = bpd.read_csv(filepath_or_buffer)
# Display the first few rows of the DataFrame:
df_from_gcs.head()

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