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Mastering Machine Learning on AWS

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

Analyzing Visitor Patterns to Make Recommendations

This chapter will focus on the problem of finding similar visitors to our own based on the theme park attractions they attend, in order to make improved marketing recommendations. Collaborative filtering methods will be introduced with examples showing how to train and obtain custom recommendations both in Apache Spark (EMR) and through the AWS SageMaker built-in algorithms. Many companies leverage the kinds of algorithms we describe in this chapter to improve the engagement of their customers by recommending products that have a proven record of being relevant to similar customers.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Making theme park attraction recommendations through Flickr data
  • Finding recommendations through Apache Spark's Alternating Least Squares (ALS) method
  • Recommending attractions through the...