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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

Summary

In this chapter, we explored Google Cloud Dataprep, a service useful to preprocess the data, extract features, and clean up records. We got into practical details with real-life examples. We started by taking a look at the Cloud application interface to discover some preliminary information needed to access the platform. We then analyzed the techniques available for the preparation of the most suitable data for analysis and modeling, which includes the imputation of missing data, detecting and eliminating outliers, and mismatched values treatment. We discovered different ways to transform data and the degree of cleaning data. Then we learned how to normalize our data, in which data units are eliminated, allowing us to easily compare data from different locations.