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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

Vertex AI – model monitoring

After model deployment, we need to monitor it since the data and environment may change and cause the model to deteriorate over time. Two concepts of monitoring should be considered: feature skew and drift detection.

In our demo documentation, we are going to build a brand-new tabular dataset and train the model. In this example, we will be using the Women’s International Football Results (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/martj42/womens-international-football-results) dataset.

We have created a tabular dataset where we have uploaded a CSV file that’s been downloaded from Kaggle. The following screenshot shows a summary of the dataset:

We have also trained a model using the AutoML method, and as the target, we have used the neutral column, which has two values (either False or True). The following screenshot shows the summary of the trained model:

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