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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

Drawing business conclusions

Now that we've applied our BigQuery ML model, let's learn how the generated results can be used from a business perspective to improve the effectiveness of our sales strategy.

From the product_recommendations table, we can extract relevant information that we can use to improve our marketing campaigns or advertising strategy, and then target the users with higher propensity to buy a specific product.

For example, by executing the following query, we can extract the first 100 users with the highest propensity to buy a specific product from our e-commerce portal:

SELECT *
FROM
    `09_recommendation_engine.product_recommendations`
ORDER BY predicted_quantity_confidence DESC
LIMIT 100;

Executing this SQL statement returns the following result:

Figure 9.11 – The customers with the highest propensity to buy a specific product

The list that we've just extracted can be sent to our marketing...