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Google Cloud now offers public datasets accessible through Apache Iceberg REST Catalog on BigLake, enabling read-only querying from any compute engine (Spark, Trino, Flink, BigQuery) without infrastructure setup. The NYC Taxi dataset is available as a production-grade Iceberg table, demonstrating features like partition pruning and time travel queries. Users only need a Google Cloud account and Application Default Credentials to connect their preferred query engine to the public REST endpoint and start exploring data immediately.

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