Chapter 4: Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning

"As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives."

– Fei-Fei Li, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

In the previous chapter, you were introduced to the major AutoML Open Source Software (OSS) tools and libraries. We did a tour of the major OSS offerings, including TPOT, AutoKeras, auto-sklearn, Featuretools, and Microsoft NNI, which will have helped you, the reader, understand the differential value propositions and approaches used in each of these libraries.

In this chapter, we will start exploring the first of many commercial offerings, namely Microsoft's Azure capabilities in automated Machine Learning (ML). Azure Machine Learning is part of the Microsoft AI ecosystem, which helps accelerate the end-to-end ML life cycle using the power of the Windows Azure platform and services. We will start with an...