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Learn Azure Synapse Data Explorer

By : Pericles (Peri) Rocha
Book Image

Learn Azure Synapse Data Explorer

By: Pericles (Peri) Rocha

Overview of this book

Large volumes of data are generated daily from applications, websites, IoT devices, and other free-text, semi-structured data sources. Azure Synapse Data Explorer helps you collect, store, and analyze such data, and work with other analytical engines, such as Apache Spark, to develop advanced data science projects and maximize the value you extract from data. This book offers a comprehensive view of Azure Synapse Data Explorer, exploring not only the core scenarios of Data Explorer but also how it integrates within Azure Synapse. From data ingestion to data visualization and advanced analytics, you’ll learn to take an end-to-end approach to maximize the value of unstructured data and drive powerful insights using data science capabilities. With real-world usage scenarios, you’ll discover how to identify key projects where Azure Synapse Data Explorer can help you achieve your business goals. Throughout the chapters, you'll also find out how to manage big data as part of a software as a service (SaaS) platform, as well as tune, secure, and serve data to end users. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the big data life cycle and you'll be able to implement advanced analytical scenarios from raw telemetry and log data.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 Introduction to Azure Synapse Data Explorer
6
Part 2 Working with Data
12
Part 3 Managing Azure Synapse Data Explorer

Summary

Historically, application log and telemetry data were used merely for support, diagnostics, and live site monitoring. With the reduced costs in storage and compute resources, this data can now be retained for longer for richer analysis. ML brings a huge opportunity to use log and telemetry data to gain deep, meaningful insights with real business impact.

In this chapter, you learned how to introduce ML models to your Data Explorer pool data using AutoML. We explored how to create Azure Machine Learning workspaces, how to configure the linked service to connect your Azure Synapse workspace to Azure Machine Learning, and finally, how to retrieve the best model from an AutoML experiment.

Next, you learned about other means to bring ML into your Azure Synapse projects. We looked at using pre-trained models to make predictions using Azure Cognitive Services, using KQL plugins to find patterns in data, and training ML models using Apache Spark MLlib.

Lastly, we briefly discussed...