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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

Running ML experiments with Azure Machine Learning

So far, we have installed the Azure CLI locally, deployed our ML workspace to our Azure subscription, and had a look through the features and functionalities of the Azure Machine Learning workspace.

In this final section of the chapter, we will set up our local environment, including Python, the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK, and optionally Visual Studio Code, and embark on our first experiments locally and with compute targets in the cloud.

Setting up a local environment

In the beginning, we discussed briefly the tooling available for deploying Azure resources through Azure Resource Manager. In the same vein, let's have a look at the options for authoring and orchestrating the workspace from our local environment. The options are as follows:

  • Using Python 3, the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK, a Jupyter Python extension, and the Azure ML CLI (1.0/2.0) extension (and an editor of choice)
  • Using Python3...