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Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

By : Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

By: Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak

Overview of this book

Implementing Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cloud had not been possible earlier due to the lack of processing power and storage. However, Azure has created ML and AI services that are easy to implement in the cloud. Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure teaches you how to perform advanced ML projects in the cloud in a cost-effective way. The book begins by covering the benefits of ML and AI in the cloud. You will then explore Microsoft’s Team Data Science Process to establish a repeatable process for successful AI development and implementation. You will also gain an understanding of AI technologies available in Azure and the Cognitive Services APIs to integrate them into bot applications. This book lets you explore prebuilt templates with Azure Machine Learning Studio and build a model using canned algorithms that can be deployed as web services. The book then takes you through a preconfigured series of virtual machines in Azure targeted at AI development scenarios. You will get to grips with the ML Server and its capabilities in SQL and HDInsight. In the concluding chapters, you’ll integrate patterns with other non-AI services in Azure. By the end of this book, you will be fully equipped to implement smart cognitive actions in your models.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps is a graphical tool for automating various types of tasks, such as getting data from a Web API and saving it in cloud storage. Logic Apps can be developed without writing a single line of code, so no programming skills are required. However, Logic Apps provides some basic functionality for programming languages, such as conditional execution and iterative loops.

Logic Apps is meant for light-weight tasks that do not require complex logic or lightning-fast performance. Such tasks could include sending an email when a SharePoint list is modified, or copying files between Dropbox and OneDrive if the files have been modified.

For AI development, Logic Apps provides a number of basic functionalities. There are built-in modules for Cognitive Services APIs and Azure Machine Learning Studio Web Services APIs. In combination with storage triggers, it is possible...