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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By : Julien Simon
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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By: Julien Simon

Overview of this book

Amazon SageMaker enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale without managing any infrastructure. It helps you focus on the machine learning problem at hand and deploy high-quality models by eliminating the heavy lifting typically involved in each step of the ML process. This second edition will help data scientists and ML developers to explore new features such as SageMaker Data Wrangler, Pipelines, Clarify, Feature Store, and much more. You'll start by learning how to use various capabilities of SageMaker as a single toolset to solve ML challenges and progress to cover features such as AutoML, built-in algorithms and frameworks, and writing your own code and algorithms to build ML models. The book will then show you how to integrate Amazon SageMaker with popular deep learning libraries, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, to extend the capabilities of existing models. You'll also see how automating your workflows can help you get to production faster with minimum effort and at a lower cost. Finally, you'll explore SageMaker Debugger and SageMaker Model Monitor to detect quality issues in training and production. By the end of this Amazon book, you'll be able to use Amazon SageMaker on the full spectrum of ML workflows, from experimentation, training, and monitoring to scaling, deployment, and automation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker
4
Section 2: Building and Training Models
11
Section 3: Diving Deeper into Training
14
Section 4: Managing Models in Production

Chapter 2: Handling Data Preparation Techniques

Data is the starting point of any machine learning project, and it takes lots of work to turn data into a dataset that can be used to train a model. That work typically involves annotating datasets, running bespoke scripts to preprocess them, and saving processed versions for later use. As you can guess, doing all this work manually, or building tools to automate it, is not an exciting prospect for machine learning teams.

In this chapter, you will learn about AWS services that help you build and process data. We'll first cover Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly build accurate training datasets. Then, we'll introduce Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, a new way to transform your data interactively. Next, we'll talk about Amazon SageMaker Processing, another capability that helps you run your data processing workloads, such as feature engineering, data validation, model...