You're reading from Machine Learning with BigQuery ML Create, execute, and improve machine learning models in BigQuery using standard SQL queries

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560307

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

BigQuery

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Alessandro Marrandino

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Google Cloud and BigQuery FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your GCP and BigQuery Environment

4. Chapter 3: Introducing BigQuery Syntax

5. Section 2: Deep Learning Networks

6. Chapter 4: Predicting Numerical Values with Linear Regression

7. Chapter 5: Predicting Boolean Values Using Binary Logistic Regression

8. Chapter 6: Classifying Trees with Multiclass Logistic Regression

9. Section 3: Advanced Models with BigQuery ML

10. Chapter 7: Clustering Using the K-Means Algorithm

11. Chapter 8: Forecasting Using Time Series

12. Chapter 9: Suggesting the Right Product by Using Matrix Factorization

13. Chapter 10: Predicting Boolean Values Using XGBoost

14. Chapter 11: Implementing Deep Neural Networks

15. Section 4: Further Extending Your ML Capabilities with GCP

16. Chapter 12: Using BigQuery ML with AI Notebooks

17. Chapter 13: Running TensorFlow Models with BigQuery ML

18. Chapter 14: BigQuery ML Tips and Best Practices

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring BigQuery Flex Slots

In this chapter, we'll understand how to configure BigQuery Flex Slots to train our ML model.

A BigQuery Slot is a unit of BigQuery analytics capacity that's used to execute SQL queries and train BigQuery ML models. One BigQuery slot represents the compute capacity of a Virtual Compute Processing Unit (VCPU).

Flex Slots allow us to buy BigQuery analytics capacity for short periods. They are usually used to quickly satisfy sudden demands for resources with a minimum duration of 60 seconds.

Enabling Flex Slots is mandatory to train a matrix factorization model; otherwise, BigQuery will return an error during the training stage.

Let's see how we can enable BigQuery Flex Slots if we're using an on-demand plan:

If you haven't enabled BigQuery Reservations yet, we need to access Reservations from the BigQuery menu on the left:
Figure 9.3 – Accessing Reservations from the BigQuery navigation menu
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