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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 learned what TensorFlow is and why it is so important for the ML industry.

First, we analyzed the main commonalities and differences between BigQuery ML and TensorFlow, and we understood that they are addressed to different target personas within the ML community.

Then, we discovered how we can complement BigQuery ML and TensorFlow to get the maximum value by combining these two frameworks.

By taking a gradual and step-by-step approach, we learned how to export BigQuery ML models into the TensorFlow format so that we can deploy them into environments other than BigQuery.

After that, we tested how to import and use a TensorFlow model in BigQuery ML. This approach enables data analysts to easily access and use advanced TensorFlow ML models that have been developed by data scientists and ML engineers. Finally, after importing the ML model, we tested the imported ML model on a BigQuery table to predict the trip duration of a bike ride with the New...