Reference patterns

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This page provides links to sample code and technical reference guides for common Dataflow use cases. Use these resources to learn, identify best practices, and leverage sample code to build the features that you need.

The reference patterns listed here are code-oriented and meant to get you quickly to implementation. To see a broader range of Dataflow solutions, review the list of Dataflow technical reference guides.

Anomaly detection

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Finding anomalies in financial transactions in real time using BoostedTrees

Use this reference implementation to learn how to identify fraudulent transactions by using a TensorFlow boosted tree model with Dataflow and AI Platform.

Technical reference guide: Detecting anomalies in financial transactions by using AI Platform, Dataflow, and BigQuery

Sample code: Anomaly Detection in Financial Transactions

General analytics

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Building a real-time website analytics dashboard

Learn how to build a dashboard that provides real-time metrics you can use to understand the performance of incentives or experiments on your website.

Sample code: Realtime Analytics using Dataflow and Memorystore

Overview video: Level Up - Real-time analytics using Dataflow and Memorystore
Building a pipeline to transcribe and analyze speech files

Use Dataflow to transcribe and analyze uploaded speech files, then save that data to BigQuery for use in visualizations.

Sample code: Speech Analysis Framework

Log analytics

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Building a pipeline to capture Dialogflow interactions

Use Dataflow to build a pipeline to capture and store Dialogflow interactions for further analysis.

Sample code: Dialogflow log parser

Pattern recognition

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Detecting objects in video clips

This solution shows you how to build a real-time video clip analytics solution for object tracking by using Dataflow and the Video Intelligence API, allowing you to analyze large volumes of unstructured data in near real time.

Sample code: Video Analytics Solution Using Dataflow and the Video Intelligence API

Apache Beam Ptransform for calling Video Intelligence API: apache_beam.ml.gcp.videointelligenceml module

Anonymize (de-identify) and re-identify PII data in your smart analytics pipeline This series of solutions shows you how to use Dataflow, Cloud Data Loss Prevention, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub to de-identify and re-identify personally identifiable information (PII) in a sample dataset.

Technical reference guides:

Sample code: Migrate Sensitive Data in BigQuery Using Dataflow and Cloud Data Loss Prevention

Predictive forecasting

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Predict mechanical failures using a vision analytics pipeline

This solution guides you through building a Dataflow pipeline to derive insights from large-scale image files stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. Automated visual inspection can help meet manufacturing goals, such as improving quality control processes or monitoring worker safety, while reducing costs.

Sample code: Vision Analytics Solution Using Dataflow and Cloud Vision API