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Machine Learning With Go

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Machine Learning With Go

Overview of this book

The mission of this book is to turn readers into productive, innovative data analysts who leverage Go to build robust and valuable applications. To this end, the book clearly introduces the technical aspects of building predictive models in Go, but it also helps the reader understand how machine learning workflows are being applied in real-world scenarios. Machine Learning with Go shows readers how to be productive in machine learning while also producing applications that maintain a high level of integrity. It also gives readers patterns to overcome challenges that are often encountered when trying to integrate machine learning in an engineering organization. The readers will begin by gaining a solid understanding of how to gather, organize, and parse real-work data from a variety of sources. Readers will then develop a solid statistical toolkit that will allow them to quickly understand gain intuition about the content of a dataset. Finally, the readers will gain hands-on experience implementing essential machine learning techniques (regression, classification, clustering, and so on) with the relevant Go packages. Finally, the reader will have a solid machine learning mindset and a powerful Go toolkit of techniques, packages, and example implementations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Deploying and Distributing Analyses and Models

We have implemented all sorts of models in Go, including regressions, classifications, clustering, and more. You have also learned about some of the process around developing a machine learning model. Our models have successfully predicted disease progression, flower species, and objects within images. Yet, we are still missing an important piece of the machine learning puzzle: deployment, maintenance, and scaling.

If our models just stay on our laptops, they are not doing any good or creating value within a company. We need to know how to take our machine learning workflows and integrate them into the systems that are already deployed in our organization, and we need to know how to scale, update, and maintain these workflows over time.

The fact that our machine learning workflows are, by their very nature, multi-stage workflows might...