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Mastering Azure Machine Learning - Second Edition

By : Christoph Körner, Marcel Alsdorf
Book Image

Mastering Azure Machine Learning - Second Edition

By: Christoph Körner, Marcel Alsdorf

Overview of this book

Azure Machine Learning is a cloud service for accelerating and managing the machine learning (ML) project life cycle that ML professionals, data scientists, and engineers can use in their day-to-day workflows. This book covers the end-to-end ML process using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, including data preparation, performing and logging ML training runs, designing training and deployment pipelines, and managing these pipelines via MLOps. The first section shows you how to set up an Azure Machine Learning workspace; ingest and version datasets; as well as preprocess, label, and enrich these datasets for training. In the next two sections, you'll discover how to enrich and train ML models for embedding, classification, and regression. You'll explore advanced NLP techniques, traditional ML models such as boosted trees, modern deep neural networks, recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, and complex distributed ML training techniques - all using Azure Machine Learning. The last section will teach you how to deploy the trained models as a batch pipeline or real-time scoring service using Docker, Azure Machine Learning clusters, Azure Kubernetes Services, and alternative deployment targets. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to combine all the steps you’ve learned by building an MLOps pipeline.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Azure Machine Learning
5
Section 2: Data Ingestion, Preparation, Feature Engineering, and Pipelining
11
Section 3: The Training and Optimization of Machine Learning Models
17
Section 4: Machine Learning Model Deployment and Operations

Integrating pipelines with other Azure services

It's rare that users only use a single service to manage data flows, experimentation, training, deployment, and CI/CD in the cloud. Other services provide specific features that make them a better fit for a task, such as Azure Data Factory for loading data into Azure and Azure Pipelines for CI/CD for running automated tasks in Azure DevOps.

The strongest argument for choosing a cloud provider is the strong integration of its individual services. In this section, we will see how Azure Machine Learning pipelines integrate with other Azure services. The list for this section would be a lot longer if we were to cover every possible service for integration. As we learned in this chapter, you can trigger a published pipeline by calling a REST endpoint and submitting a pipeline using standard Python code. This means that you can integrate pipelines anywhere where you can call HTTP endpoints or run Python code.

We will first look into...