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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

Authoring experiments within Azure ML Studio

Azure ML Studio provides the following authoring experiences:

  • Notebooks allows you to work with files, folders, and Jupyter Notebooks directly in the workspace. You will be working with notebooks in Chapter 7, The AzureML Python SDK, where you will see the code-first data science process.
  • Automated ML allows you to rapidly test multiple combinations of algorithms against a given dataset and find the best model based on the success metric you define. You will read more about this in Chapter 5, Letting the Machines Do the Model Training.
  • Designer allows you to visually design an experiment by connecting datasets and modules such as data transformation and model training in a flow. By designing this flow on a canvas, you can train and deploy machine learning models without writing any code, something that you will read more about in Chapter 6, Visual Model Training and Publishing.
  • Data Labeling allows you to create labeling...