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Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, V Kishore Ayyadevara, Alexis Perrier
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro, V Kishore Ayyadevara, Alexis Perrier

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine combines the services of Google Cloud Platform with the power and flexibility of TensorFlow. With this book, you will not only learn to build and train different complexities of machine learning models at scale but also host them in the cloud to make predictions. This book is focused on making the most of the Google Machine Learning Platform for large datasets and complex problems. You will learn from scratch how to create powerful machine learning based applications for a wide variety of problems by leveraging different data services from the Google Cloud Platform. Applications include NLP, Speech to text, Reinforcement learning, Time series, recommender systems, image classification, video content inference and many other. We will implement a wide variety of deep learning use cases and also make extensive use of data related services comprising the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem such as Firebase, Storage APIs, Datalab and so forth. This will enable you to integrate Machine Learning and data processing features into your web and mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will know the main difficulties that you may encounter and get appropriate strategies to overcome these difficulties and build efficient systems.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Creating ML Applications with Firebase

Removing seasonality from a time series

In economic and financial analyses, which are commonly carried out on the basis of numerous indicators, the use of data presented in a seasonally adjusted form (that is, net of seasonal fluctuations), is widely used in order to be able to grasp more clearly the short-term evolution of the phenomena considered.

Seasonality, in the dynamics of a time series, is the component that repeats itself at regular intervals every year, with variations of intensity more or less similar in the same period (month, quarter, semester, and so on) of successive years; there is different intensity during the same year. Typical examples of this are a decrease in industrial production in August following holiday closures of many companies, and increase in retail sales in December due to the holiday season.

Seasonal fluctuations, disguising other movements of...