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Mastering Azure Machine Learning. - Second Edition

By : Christoph Körner, Marcel Alsdorf
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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

Summary

This concludes the first part of this book. By now, you should have a good idea of what ML in general entails, what services and options are available in Azure, and how to utilize the Azure Machine Learning service to do ML experimentation and enhance your existing ML modeling scripts.

In the next part of the book, we will concentrate on one of the aspects of ML often overlooked, the data itself. It is extremely vital to get this right. You might have heard the phrase garbage in, garbage out before, which holds true. Therefore, we will be working on removing as many pitfalls as possible by running automated data ingestion, cleaning and preparing data, extracting features, and performing labeling. In the end, we will bring all our knowledge together to discuss how to set up an ingestion and training ML pipeline.

As the first step of this process, we need to understand different data sources and formats and bring our data to the Azure Machine Learning workspace, which...