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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

Creating a BigQuery dataset

Before jumping into the BigQuery syntax, it is necessary to create a new BigQuery dataset that will employ the data structures created in the next sections. For each hands-on chapter, we'll create a new dataset to segregate each use case and maintain a logical separated structure:

  1. Access the BigQuery UI by browsing to the GCP Navigation menu from the GCP console and selecting the BigQuery service.
  2. After selecting the right GCP project in the navigation menu of the BigQuery UI, it is possible to click on the Create Dataset button:

    Figure 3.1 – Creation of a new BigQuery Dataset

  3. In the overlay window that appears on the right of the screen, choose the Dataset ID that you prefer and leave all the other options configured with default values. To host the data structures of this chapter, we suggest using the name 03_bigquery_syntax. Then, select Create dataset:

Figure 3.2 – Create dataset screen

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