Time Series functions in BigQuery

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We now have DATE_BUCKET, DATETIME_BUCKET and TIMESTAMP_BUCKET which will help us bucket dates, datetimes and timestamps, respectively.
In the example below, we're specifying the bucket size to be 15 minutes and the function groups each of our event_timestamps into their respective bucket.

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