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Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

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

Using the Azure Machine Learning SDK for E2E machine learning

As shown in the following diagram, the first step in E2E machine learning is data preparation, which includes cleaning the data and featurization. Then, we have to create and train a machine learning model in the model training step. After that, we have model deployment, which means deploying the model as a web service to perform predictions. The final step is monitoring, which includes analyzing how the model is performing and then triggering the retraining of the model.

The Azure ML SDK enables professional data scientists and DevOps engineers to carry out E2E machine learning. It allows us to seamlessly use the power of the cloud to train and deploy our model. We can start using the Azure ML SDK easily by installing it using pip in any Python environment. We can scale the compute for training by using a cluster...