Get the top patent countries, codes in a BQ public dataset

Question

I am trying to use an analytic function to get the top 2 countries with patent applications, and within those top 2 countries, get the top 2 application kinds. For example, the

Answer 1

Below is for BigQuery Standard SQL

#standardSQL
WITH A AS (
  SELECT country_code
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  GROUP BY country_code
  ORDER BY COUNT(1) DESC
  LIMIT 2
), B AS (
  SELECT
    country_code,
    application_kind,
    COUNT(1) application_kind_count
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  WHERE country_code IN (SELECT country_code FROM A)
  GROUP BY country_code, application_kind
), C AS (
  SELECT
    country_code,
    application_kind,
    application_kind_count,
    DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY country_code ORDER BY application_kind_count DESC) AS application_kind_rank
  FROM B
)
SELECT
  country_code,
  application_kind,
  application_kind_count
FROM C
WHERE application_kind_rank <= 2  

with result