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Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

By : Dr. Logan Song
Book Image

Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

By: Dr. Logan Song

Overview of this book

This book aims to provide a study guide to learn and master machine learning in Google Cloud: to build a broad and strong knowledge base, train hands-on skills, and get certified as a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer. The book is for someone who has the basic Google Cloud Platform (GCP) knowledge and skills, and basic Python programming skills, and wants to learn machine learning in GCP to take their next step toward becoming a Google Cloud Certified Machine Learning professional. The book starts by laying the foundations of Google Cloud Platform and Python programming, followed the by building blocks of machine learning, then focusing on machine learning in Google Cloud, and finally ends the studying for the Google Cloud Machine Learning certification by integrating all the knowledge and skills together. The book is based on the graduate courses the author has been teaching at the University of Texas at Dallas. When going through the chapters, the reader is expected to study the concepts, complete the exercises, understand and practice the labs in the appendices, and study each exam question thoroughly. Then, at the end of the learning journey, you can expect to harvest the knowledge, skills, and a certificate.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Starting with GCP and Python
4
Part 2: Introducing Machine Learning
8
Part 3: Mastering ML in GCP
13
Part 4: Accomplishing GCP ML Certification
15
Part 5: Appendices
Appendix 2: Practicing Using the Python Data Libraries

Practicing using GCP services with the Cloud console

In GCP, a project is the basic unit for resource provision. You can use the following steps to begin a project:

  1. After you log into the GCP console (https://console.cloud.google.com) from your browser, you will see the following starting page:
  1. You can always create a new project by clicking the drop-down button next to My First Project.

Within the My First Project project, we will now create the network VPCs, subnets, and VMs.

Creating network VPCs using the GCP console

Use the following steps to create a VPC in the GCP console:

  1. On the upper-left side of the window, there is the navigation drop-down menu that you will be able to use to choose the GCP services.
  1. From the navigation menu on the left side, go to VPC network and select VPC networks from the dropdown. It will prompt you to enable Compute Engine API...