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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

Chapter 3: Introducing BigQuery Syntax

The BigQuery dialect is compliant with the standard ANSI 2011 and is quite easy to learn for people who know other dialects and have experience with SQL. The main differences in terms of syntax are represented by BigQuery extensions, which allow us to use advanced features such as Machine Learning (ML). Bringing ML capabilities into SQL allows different roles to access it. This approach has the clear goal of democratizing the use of ML across different functions within a company, generating as much value as possible. With BigQuery ML, Google Cloud is filling the gap between tech-savvy people with ML skills and business analysts who know the company's data very well and have been working on it for years.

To build your confidence with the BigQuery environment and its dialect, we'll go through the following topics:

  • Creating a BigQuery dataset
  • Discovering BigQuery SQL
  • Diving into BigQuery ML