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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 11: Working with Pipelines

In this chapter, you will learn how you can author repeatable processes, defining pipelines that consist of multiple steps. You can use these pipelines to author training pipelines that transform your data and then train models, or you can use them to perform batch inferences using pre-trained models. Once you register one of those pipelines, you can invoke it using either an HTTP endpoint or through the SDK, or even configure them to execute on a schedule. With this knowledge, you will be able to implement and consume pipelines by using the Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) SDK.

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

  • Understanding AzureML pipelines
  • Authoring a pipeline
  • Publishing a pipeline to expose it as an endpoint
  • Scheduling a recurring pipeline