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Machine Learning at Scale with H2O

By : Gregory Keys, David Whiting
Book Image

Machine Learning at Scale with H2O

By: Gregory Keys, David Whiting

Overview of this book

H2O is an open source, fast, and scalable machine learning framework that allows you to build models using big data and then easily productionalize them in diverse enterprise environments. Machine Learning at Scale with H2O begins with an overview of the challenges faced in building machine learning models on large enterprise systems, and then addresses how H2O helps you to overcome them. You’ll start by exploring H2O’s in-memory distributed architecture and find out how it enables you to build highly accurate and explainable models on massive datasets using your favorite ML algorithms, language, and IDE. You’ll also get to grips with the seamless integration of H2O model building and deployment with Spark using H2O Sparkling Water. You’ll then learn how to easily deploy models with H2O MOJO. Next, the book shows you how H2O Enterprise Steam handles admin configurations and user management, and then helps you to identify different stakeholder perspectives that a data scientist must understand in order to succeed in an enterprise setting. Finally, you’ll be introduced to the H2O AI Cloud platform and explore the entire machine learning life cycle using multiple advanced AI capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy advanced, state-of-the-art machine learning models for your business needs.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1 – Introduction to the H2O Machine Learning Platform for Data at Scale
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Section 2 – Building State-of-the-Art Models on Large Data Volumes Using H2O
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Section 3 – Deploying Your Models to Production Environments
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Section 4 – Enterprise Stakeholder Perspectives
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Section 5 – Broadening the View – Data to AI Applications with the H2O AI Cloud Platform

H2O AI Cloud component breakdown

Let's take a deeper dive into each of the components.

DistributedML (H2O-3 and H2O Sparkling Water)

DistributedML has been the focus of model building for this book, where it is called H2O Core to represent either H2O-3 or Sparkling Water in that context. Fundamentally, you use H2O Core to build models on massive datasets.

For the purposes of this chapter, the main features and capabilities are presented in the upcoming subsection For more details, see Chapter 2, Platform Components and Key Concepts, to review the distributed in-memory architecture that enables model building on a massive scale. See Chapter 4, H2O Model Building at Scale – Capability Articulation, to review its main capabilities in greater detail.

Key features and capabilities

The key features and capabilities of H2O Core (H2O-3 and Sparkling Water) are as follows:

  • Model building on massive data volumes: H2O Core has an architecture that partitions...