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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Machine learning


Machine learning (ML) is a part of an artificial intelligence developed for the technological development of human knowledge. ML provisions devices to dynamically handle any situation through analysis, self-training, observation, and experience, which makes continuous improvement of decisions in subsequent scenarios. ML is ambiguous with data mining in databases for knowledge engineering. It is focused on predictions based on known facts learned from training data, while data mining focuses on the discovery of unknown facts. Data mining uses many ML methods, whereas ML uses unsupervised learning to improve the user’s accuracy. Machine learning and statistics are very closely tied domains.

In computational learning theory, a computation is considered feasible if it can be done in polynomial time. Some classes of functions can be learned in polynomial time and others cannot. The approaches of ML are decision tree learning, association rule learning, artificial neural networks...