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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

Throughout this second chapter, we've taken the first steps into GCP. Before starting the registration process, we look at the hierarchy of GCP resources, composed of multiple projects, folders, and an organization node.

After that, we learned how to create a new account and leverage the free trial offered by Google. Then, we explored Google Cloud Console from the web browser and created a new GCP project that we'll use in the next chapters to host our machine learning use cases.

Upon completing the setup operations, we enabled the BigQuery API to start accessing this serverless analytic data warehouse.

Since BigQuery provides a lot of different functions, we introduced each of them gradually, exploring their utility. One of the most important functions is adding public datasets to our console. This capability enables us to access and use tables that have already been compiled by companies and public institutions. The datasets are ready to use and can be...