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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

Exploring and understanding the dataset

As we learned in Chapter 4, Predicting Numerical Values with Linear Regression, before diving into the ML implementation, it's necessary to analyze the data available for our use case. We need to begin by having a clear understanding of the data that can be used for our business scenario.

Understanding the data

To start exploring the data, we need to do the following:

  1. Log in to Google Cloud Console and access the BigQuery user interface from the navigation menu.
  2. Create a new dataset in the project that we created in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your GCP and BigQuery Environment. For this use case, we'll create the 05_chicago_taxi dataset with the default options.
  3. Open the bigquery-public-data GCP project that hosts all the BigQuery public datasets and browse the items until you find the chicago_taxi_trips dataset. In this public dataset, we can see only one BigQuery table: taxi_trips. This table contains all the information...