A. GCP training notes

Continuous deployment

FaaS deployment for continuous delivery from github https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/deploying/repo. 

Keeping data assets in multi-regional buckets avoids transfer costs - there are none in moving assets between buckets. Cloud PubSub achieves the same for text-based transfer/communication.

Online Training

There is a lot of material, with or without certification as the end point. A quick sample,

1. https://cloud.google.com/training/ (free)

2. https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud-summit-ny/ ... for the full list https://codelabs.developers.google.com/ (free)

3. https://googlecloud.qwiklabs.com/ (not free, each classroom creates test GCP accounts)

4. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/google-it-support --> designed for professional certification

5. https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=google%20cloud <-- full list at Coursera

B. APIs for Visualizing descriptive cancer statistics

Primarily from CDC and SEER:

• CDC: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html (Socrata :-) ! ), example at https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/DataViz.html

• SEER: https://api.seer.cancer.gov

Elsewhere

UMD group working on cancer and death registration visualization.

• https://hcil.umd.edu/faculty-staff/

•  Ben Schneiderman’s work in the NAS art gallery, https://treemapart.wordpress.com/category/draft-designs/

• https://ourworldindata.org/

• http://gco.iarc.fr/

@ DCEG

Meredith Shiels ...

Being approached in EpiSPhere at https://github.com/episphere/caviz, where a support library for dashboard applications is being developed, for example https://observablehq.com/@episphere/caviz.

C. API design

A good reason to update your postman - https://www.programmableweb.com/news/postman-71-allows-devs-to-create-apis-directly-app/2019/05/21. 

Original post at https://blog.getpostman.com/2019/05/16/announcing-postman-7-1. 

Documentation and tutorial at https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/design_and_develop_apis/introduction_to_apis/

Can we give it a try with DCEG Connect API at https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3282203/S1LsXq2E ?

D. News on "the Web as the Universal Platform"

https://youtu.be/GSiUzuB-PoI