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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

Selecting model performance metrics

The most relevant question about any model is, How well does it predict? Regardless of any other positive properties that a model may possess, models that don't predict well are just not very useful. How to best measure predictive performance depends both on the specific problem being solved and the choices available to the data scientist. H2O provides multiple options for measuring model performance.

For measuring predictive model performance in regression problems, H2O provides R2, mean squared error (MSE), root mean squared error (RMSE), root mean squared logarithmic error (RMSLE), and mean absolute error (MAE) as metrics. MSE and RMSE are good default options, with RMSE being our preference because the metric is expressed in the same units as the predictions (rather than squared units, as in the case of MSE). All metrics based on squared error are sensitive to outliers in general. If robustness to outliers is a requirement, then MAE is...