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Automated Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure

By : Dennis Michael Sawyers
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Automated Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure

By: Dennis Michael Sawyers

Overview of this book

Automated Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure will teach you how to build high-performing, accurate machine learning models in record time. It will equip you with the knowledge and skills to easily harness the power of artificial intelligence and increase the productivity and profitability of your business. Guided user interfaces (GUIs) enable both novices and seasoned data scientists to easily train and deploy machine learning solutions to production. Using a careful, step-by-step approach, this book will teach you how to use Azure AutoML with a GUI as well as the AzureML Python software development kit (SDK). First, you'll learn how to prepare data, train models, and register them to your Azure Machine Learning workspace. You'll then discover how to take those models and use them to create both automated batch solutions using machine learning pipelines and real-time scoring solutions using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Finally, you will be able to use AutoML on your own data to not only train regression, classification, and forecasting models but also use them to solve a wide variety of business problems. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to show your business partners exactly how your ML models are making predictions through automatically generated charts and graphs, earning their trust and respect.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: AutoML Explained – Why, What, and How
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Section 2: AutoML for Regression, Classification, and Forecasting – A Step-by-Step Guide
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Section 3: AutoML in Production – Automating Real-Time and Batch Scoring Solutions

Chapter 8: Choosing Real-Time versus Batch Scoring

As you have experienced in the previous chapters, training AutoML models is simple and straightforward. Whether you choose to train a model using the Azure Machine Learning Studio (AMLS) GUI or code an AutoML solution in Python using Jupyter, you can build highly accurate machine learning (ML) models in minutes. However, you still need to learn how to deploy them. In Azure, there are two main ways you can deploy a previously trained ML model to score new data: real-time and batch.

In this chapter, you will begin by learning what a batch scoring solution is, when to use it, and when it makes sense to retrain batch models. Continuing, you will learn what a real-time scoring solution is, when to use it, and when it makes sense to retrain real-time models. Finally, you will conclude by reading a variety of different scenarios and determining which type of scoring you should use. All scenarios are based on common problems faced by real...