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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how you can define AzureML pipelines using the AzureML SDK. These pipelines allow you to orchestrate various steps in a repeatable manner. You started by defining a training pipeline consisting of two steps. You then learned how to trigger the pipeline and how to troubleshoot potential code issues. Then you published the pipeline to register it within the AzureML workspace and acquire an HTTP endpoint that third-party software systems could use to trigger pipeline executions. In the last section, you learned how to schedule the recurrence of a published pipeline.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to operationalize the models you have been training so far in the book. Within that context, you will use the knowledge you acquired in this chapter to author batch inference pipelines, something that you can publish and trigger with HTTP or have it scheduled, as you learned in this chapter.