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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

Diving into BigQuery ML

Developing an ML model in BigQuery involves three main steps:

  1. Model creation, where you are required to choose the features and labels of your ML model and the options to tune the ML model. At this stage, BigQuery runs the training of the ML model on the training set that you've chosen.
  2. Model evaluation allows you to test the model trained in the previous step on a different set of records to prevent any overfitting.
  3. Model use: when the ML model is ready, we can apply it to a new dataset in order to make predictions or classifications of the labels according to the available features.

In the next paragraphs, we'll take a look at the syntax of these three stages and how these statements are built using stubs of code.

Creating the ML model (training)

When you've identified the ML use case and also the set of records to train your model, you can start training the model with the following query:

CREATE MODEL`<project_name...