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Azure Data Scientist Associate Certification Guide

By : Andreas Botsikas, Michael Hlobil
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Azure Data Scientist Associate Certification Guide

By: Andreas Botsikas, Michael Hlobil

Overview of this book

The Azure Data Scientist Associate Certification Guide helps you acquire practical knowledge for machine learning experimentation on Azure. It covers everything you need to pass the DP-100 exam and become a certified Azure Data Scientist Associate. Starting with an introduction to data science, you'll learn the terminology that will be used throughout the book and then move on to the Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) workspace. You'll discover the studio interface and manage various components, such as data stores and compute clusters. Next, the book focuses on no-code and low-code experimentation, and shows you how to use the Automated ML wizard to locate and deploy optimal models for your dataset. You'll also learn how to run end-to-end data science experiments using the designer provided in Azure ML Studio. You'll then explore the Azure ML Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python and advance to creating experiments and publishing models using code. The book also guides you in optimizing your model's hyperparameters using Hyperdrive before demonstrating how to use responsible AI tools to interpret and debug your models. Once you have a trained model, you'll learn to operationalize it for batch or real-time inferences and monitor it in production. By the end of this Azure certification study guide, you'll have gained the knowledge and the practical skills required to pass the DP-100 exam.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Starting your cloud-based data science journey
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Section 2: No code data science experimentation
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Section 3: Advanced data science tooling and capabilities

Chapter 7: The AzureML Python SDK

In this chapter, you will understand how the AzureML Python Software Development Kit (SDK) is structured and how to work with it, something that is key for the DP-100 exam. You will learn how to work with the Notebooks experience that is built into the AzureML Studio web portal, a tool that boosts coding productivity. Using the notebook editor, you will write some Python code to gain a better understanding of how to manage the compute targets, datastores, and datasets that are registered in the workspace. Finally, you are going to revisit the Azure CLI we looked at in Chapter 2, Deploying Azure Machine Learning Workspace Resources, to perform workspace management actions using the AzureML extension. This will allow you to script and automate your workspace management activities.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Overview of the Python SDK
  • Working with AzureML notebooks
  • Basic coding with the AzureML...