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Mastering Machine Learning on AWS

By : Dr. Saket S.R. Mengle, Maximo Gurmendez
Book Image

Mastering Machine Learning on AWS

By: Dr. Saket S.R. Mengle, Maximo Gurmendez

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is constantly driving new innovations that empower data scientists to explore a variety of machine learning (ML) cloud services. This book is your comprehensive reference for learning and implementing advanced ML algorithms in AWS cloud. As you go through the chapters, you’ll gain insights into how these algorithms can be trained, tuned, and deployed in AWS using Apache Spark on Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), SageMaker, and TensorFlow. While you focus on algorithms such as XGBoost, linear models, factorization machines, and deep nets, the book will also provide you with an overview of AWS as well as detailed practical applications that will help you solve real-world problems. Every application includes a series of companion notebooks with all the necessary code to run on AWS. In the next few chapters, you will learn to use SageMaker and EMR Notebooks to perform a range of tasks, right from smart analytics and predictive modeling through to sentiment analysis. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to effectively handle machine learning projects and implement and evaluate algorithms on AWS.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Machine Learning on AWS
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Section 2: Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms at Scale on AWS
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Section 3: Deep Learning
13
Section 4: Integrating Ready-Made AWS Machine Learning Services
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Section 5: Optimizing and Deploying Models through AWS
Appendix: Getting Started with AWS

Summary

Amazon Lex makes building conversational bots easier and more accessible for everyone. Conversational bots use a lot of machine learning models to provide users with quick answers to their queries. Amazon Lex provides a graphical interface where you can specify what utterances your bot should respond to, slots of information it should collect, and confirmation questions that your bot should ask the user. Such tools can be tested directly on the dashboard, as we demonstrated in the previous section.

As data scientists need to build applications that will wow customers, using tools such as Amazon Comprehend, Rekognition, and Lex are a good way to build these prototypes rapidly. However, these services may prove to be expensive when used on a large scale. In such cases, we always work on building our own models using frameworks such as Apache Spark or SageMaker.

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