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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

By : Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

By: Prashant Kumar Mishra

Overview of this book

Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is a limitless analytics service that brings enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics together. With this book, you'll learn how to discover insights from your data effectively using this platform. The book starts with an overview of Azure Synapse Analytics, its architecture, and how it can be used to improve business intelligence and machine learning capabilities. Next, you'll go on to choose and set up the correct environment for your business problem. You'll also learn a variety of ways to ingest data from various sources and orchestrate the data using transformation techniques offered by Azure Synapse. Later, you'll explore how to handle both relational and non-relational data using the SQL language. As you progress, you'll perform real-time streaming and execute data analysis operations on your data using various languages, before going on to apply ML techniques to derive accurate and granular insights from data. Finally, you'll discover how to protect sensitive data in real time by using security and privacy features. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to build end-to-end analytics solutions while focusing on data prep, data management, data warehousing, and AI tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts
4
Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration
8
Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts
14
Section 4: Best Practices

Chapter 10: Generate Powerful Insights on Azure Synapse Using Azure ML

Machine Learning (ML) has become an integral part of the data ecosystem now and Azure enables you to build powerful, cloud-based ML applications by using the Azure Machine Learning service. Azure ML provides you with options to create supervised or unsupervised ML models and its integration with Azure Synapse has opened a wide ocean for data scientists.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about the integration of Azure Synapse with the Azure ML service, and how we can leverage this unique feature to generate powerful insights into our data.

We will cover the following topics in order to understand how we can bring better insight to our data using machine learning capabilities in Azure Synapse:

  • Preparing the environment
  • Creating an Azure ML linked service in Synapse
  • Machine learning capabilities in Azure Synapse
  • Use cases with Cognitive Services