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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to manage data in Azure Machine Learning using datastores and datasets. We saw how to configure the default datastore that is responsible for storing all assets, logs, models, and more in Azure Machine Learning, as well as other services that can be used as datastores for different types of data.

After creating an Azure Blob storage account and configuring it as a datastore in Azure Machine Learning, we saw different tools to ingest data into Azure, such as Azure Storage Explorer, Azure CLI, and AzCopy, as well as services optimized for data ingestion and transformation, Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Spark.

In the subsequent section, we got our hands on datasets. We created file and tabular datasets and learned about direct and registered datasets. Datasets can be passed as a download or a mount to executed scripts, which will automatically track datasets in Azure Machine Learning.

Finally, we learned how to improve predication...