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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

Training the binary logistic regression model

As we already did in Chapter 4, Predicting Numerical Values with Linear Regression, we'll adopt an incremental approach in trying to improve the performance of our ML model at each attempt:

  1. Let's start training our first ML model, binary_classification_version_1:
    CREATE OR REPLACE MODEL `05_chicago_taxi.binary_classification_version_1`
    OPTIONS
      (model_type='logistic_reg', labels = ['will_get_tip']) AS
        SELECT
            trip_seconds,
            IF(tips>0,1,0) AS will_get_tip
        FROM  `05_chicago_taxi.training_table`;

    In this BigQuery ML statement, we can see the CREATE OR REPLACE MODEL keywords used to start the training of the model. These keywords are followed by the identifier of the ML model. After the identifier, we can notice the OPTIONS clause. As our options...