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Mastering Azure Machine Learning

By : Christoph Körner, Kaijisse Waaijer
Book Image

Mastering Azure Machine Learning

By: Christoph Körner, Kaijisse Waaijer

Overview of this book

The increase being seen in data volume today requires distributed systems, powerful algorithms, and scalable cloud infrastructure to compute insights and train and deploy machine learning (ML) models. This book will help you improve your knowledge of building ML models using Azure and end-to-end ML pipelines on the cloud. The book starts with an overview of an end-to-end ML project and a guide on how to choose the right Azure service for different ML tasks. It then focuses on Azure Machine Learning and takes you through the process of data experimentation, data preparation, and feature engineering using Azure Machine Learning and Python. You'll learn advanced feature extraction techniques using natural language processing (NLP), classical ML techniques, and the secrets of both a great recommendation engine and a performant computer vision model using deep learning methods. You'll also explore how to train, optimize, and tune models using Azure Automated Machine Learning and HyperDrive, and perform distributed training on Azure. Then, you'll learn different deployment and monitoring techniques using Azure Kubernetes Services with Azure Machine Learning, along with the basics of MLOps—DevOps for ML to automate your ML process as CI/CD pipeline. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Azure Machine Learning and be able to confidently design, build and operate scalable ML pipelines in Azure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Machine Learning
4
Section 2: Experimentation and Data Preparation
9
Section 3: Training Machine Learning Models
15
Section 4: Optimization and Deployment of Machine Learning Models
19
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned the differences between multiple ML and AI services in Azure. You can now easily navigate through various Azure services and know which ML task requires which service. If your task and data is available for Cognitive Services, then it is very convenient to simply use the Cognitive Services API for prediction. This is the case for common computer vision tasks, such as object detection of common objects, image captioning and tagging, face detection, handwritten text recognition, landmark detection, and many other text and language tasks.

If you need to build custom models for data from custom domains, you can choose to pick a tool with a GUI such as Azure Machine Learning designer. However, if you don't know how to select and configure a good custom ML model, Automated Machine Learning would be a better choice for you.

Finally, if you want to create your own custom model, your best choice is the Azure Machine Learning. It is a great tool...