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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

Introducing the business scenario

In this section, we'll introduce the business scenario that will be tackled with the XGBoost classification algorithm.

The business scenario is very similar to the use case presented and used in Chapter 6, Classifying Trees with Multiclass Logistic Regression. In this chapter, we'll use the same dataset but will apply a more advanced ML algorithm.

We can summarize and remember that the goal of the ML model is to automatically classify the trees of New York City into different species according to their characteristics, such as their position, their size, and their health status.

As we've done in Chapter 9, Suggesting the Right Product by Using Matrix Factorization, we can focus our attention only on the five most common species of trees present in the city.

Now that we've explained and understood the business scenario, let's take a look at the ML technique that we can use to automatically classify trees according...