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Effective Amazon Machine Learning

By : Alexis Perrier
Book Image

Effective Amazon Machine Learning

By: Alexis Perrier

Overview of this book

Predictive analytics is a complex domain requiring coding skills, an understanding of the mathematical concepts underpinning machine learning algorithms, and the ability to create compelling data visualizations. Following AWS simplifying Machine learning, this book will help you bring predictive analytics projects to fruition in three easy steps: data preparation, model tuning, and model selection. This book will introduce you to the Amazon Machine Learning platform and will implement core data science concepts such as classification, regression, regularization, overfitting, model selection, and evaluation. Furthermore, you will learn to leverage the Amazon Web Service (AWS) ecosystem for extended access to data sources, implement realtime predictions, and run Amazon Machine Learning projects via the command line and the Python SDK. Towards the end of the book, you will also learn how to apply these services to other problems, such as text mining, and to more complex datasets.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 3. Overview of an Amazon Machine Learning Workflow

This chapter offers an overview of the workflow of a simple Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) project, which comprises three main phases:

  1. Preparing the data
  2. Training and selecting the model
  3. Making predictions

The reader will learn how to get started on the Amazon Machine Learning platform, how to set up an account, and how to secure it. In the second part, we go through a simple numeric prediction problem based on a classic dataset. We describe each of the three steps mentioned above, what happens, what to expect, and how to interpret the final result.

In this chapter, we will study the following:

  • Opening an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account
  • Setting up the account
  • Overview of a standard Amazon Machine Learning workflow