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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

A Reference H2O Wave app as an enterprise AI integration fabric

The low-code Wave SDK allows data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers to build applications that integrate one or more H2O components participating in the ML life cycle into a single application. H2O Wave is thus a powerful integration story.

Two Wave design facts need to be revisited, however, because they make this integration story even more powerful. First, Wave apps are deployed in containers and are thus isolated from other Wave apps. Second, developers can install and integrate publicly available or proprietary Python packages and APIs into the application. This means that H2O Wave apps can integrate both H2O and non-H2O components into a single application. This can effectively be restated as follows: H2O apps can be built as single panes of glass across your entire AI-related enterprise ecosystem. This is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 14.11 – H2O Wave AI app...