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Mastering Azure Machine Learning

By : Christoph Körner, Kaijisse Waaijer
Book Image

Mastering Azure Machine Learning

By: Christoph Körner, Kaijisse Waaijer

Overview of this book

The increase being seen in data volume today requires distributed systems, powerful algorithms, and scalable cloud infrastructure to compute insights and train and deploy machine learning (ML) models. This book will help you improve your knowledge of building ML models using Azure and end-to-end ML pipelines on the cloud. The book starts with an overview of an end-to-end ML project and a guide on how to choose the right Azure service for different ML tasks. It then focuses on Azure Machine Learning and takes you through the process of data experimentation, data preparation, and feature engineering using Azure Machine Learning and Python. You'll learn advanced feature extraction techniques using natural language processing (NLP), classical ML techniques, and the secrets of both a great recommendation engine and a performant computer vision model using deep learning methods. You'll also explore how to train, optimize, and tune models using Azure Automated Machine Learning and HyperDrive, and perform distributed training on Azure. Then, you'll learn different deployment and monitoring techniques using Azure Kubernetes Services with Azure Machine Learning, along with the basics of MLOps—DevOps for ML to automate your ML process as CI/CD pipeline. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Azure Machine Learning and be able to confidently design, build and operate scalable ML pipelines in Azure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Machine Learning
4
Section 2: Experimentation and Data Preparation
9
Section 3: Training Machine Learning Models
15
Section 4: Optimization and Deployment of Machine Learning Models
19
Index

Monitoring Azure Machine Learning deployments

You have successfully registered a trained model, an environment, a scoring file, and an inference configuration in the previous section. You have optimized your model for scoring and deployed it to a managed Kubernetes cluster. You auto-generated client SDKs for your ML services. So, can you finally lean back and enjoy the success of your hard work? Well, not yet! First, we need to make sure that we have all our monitoring in place so that you can observe and react to anything happening to your deployment.

First, the good things: with Azure Machine Learning deployments and managed compute targets, you will get many things included out of the box with either Azure, Azure Machine Learning, or your service used as a compute target. Tools such as the Azure dashboard, Azure Monitor, and Azure Log Analytics make it really easy to centralize log and debug information. Once your data is available through Log Analytics, it can be queried, analyzed...