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Machine Learning with BigQuery ML

By : Alessandro Marrandino
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Machine Learning with BigQuery ML

By: Alessandro Marrandino

Overview of this book

BigQuery ML enables you to easily build machine learning (ML) models with SQL without much coding. This book will help you to accelerate the development and deployment of ML models with BigQuery ML. The book starts with a quick overview of Google Cloud and BigQuery architecture. You'll then learn how to configure a Google Cloud project, understand the architectural components and capabilities of BigQuery, and find out how to build ML models with BigQuery ML. The book teaches you how to use ML using SQL on BigQuery. You'll analyze the key phases of a ML model's lifecycle and get to grips with the SQL statements used to train, evaluate, test, and use a model. As you advance, you'll build a series of use cases by applying different ML techniques such as linear regression, binary and multiclass logistic regression, k-means, ARIMA time series, deep neural networks, and XGBoost using practical use cases. Moving on, you'll cover matrix factorization and deep neural networks using BigQuery ML's capabilities. Finally, you'll explore the integration of BigQuery ML with other Google Cloud Platform components such as AI Platform Notebooks and TensorFlow along with discovering best practices and tips and tricks for hyperparameter tuning and performance enhancement. By the end of this BigQuery book, you'll be able to build and evaluate your own ML models with BigQuery ML.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
5
Section 2: Deep Learning Networks
9
Section 3: Advanced Models with BigQuery ML
15
Section 4: Further Extending Your ML Capabilities with GCP

Summary

In this chapter, we've built our time series forecasting machine learning model. After the introduction of the business scenario, we discovered what time series forecasting is, and in particular, the ARIMA algorithm that is used to predict values from historical data points.

Before diving into the development of the BigQuery ML model, we applied some analyses on the data collected by the state of Iowa related to liquor sales in the shops of the territory. For this purpose, we introduced the use of the reporting tool Data Studio, which can be easily accessed by the BigQuery UI and be leveraged to draw a time series chart.

We then created our training table, which includes the time series of historical data, and trained our BigQuery ML model on it. Then, we evaluated the time series forecasting model by leveraging the BigQuery ML SQL syntax.

In the last step, we forecasted the quantity of liquor sold in Iowa with a horizon of 30 days and drew the results in a Data...