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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)
8
Creating ML Applications with Firebase

Setting up a data science stack on the VM

So, now we have a VM running and we're able to send files to it, connect to it, and modify it. Everything is ready for us to set it up for data science!

We will install the Python Miniconda stack from continuum, much smaller than the full Conda distribution. Do SSH into your instance.

  1. Install the mini sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bzip2 wget from https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh using the following command:
bash Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
  1. And then install the Python stack with conda:
$ conda install scikit-learn pandas jupyter ipython

Don't forget to do this:

$ source .bashrc