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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, you'll be introduced to the business scenario that will be handled with the DNNs technique.

The business scenario is very similar to the use case presented and used in Chapter 4, Predicting Numerical Values with Linear Regression. In this chapter, we'll use the same dataset related to the New York City bike-sharing service, but we'll apply more advanced machine learning algorithms.

We can remember that the hypothetical goal of the ML model is to predict the trip time of a bike rental. The predicted value could be used to provide a better experience to the customers of the bike-sharing service through the new mobile application. Leveraging the predicted ride duration, the customer will get a clear indication of the time it will take to reach a specific destination and also an estimation of the ride cost.

Now that we've explained and understood the business scenario, let's take a look at the machine...