Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Hopefully, if you have gotten to this point on your journey, you are excited about the possibilities of getting started. Getting to this point has been a workout, but our ultimate goal is to thoroughly understand the how and why of good architectural decision-making. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an exciting topic that is still relatively new in our industry. Performing inference on data in real time to determine a course of action is powerful. Performing inference on your data is often a phrase you will hear in ML. It is the act of reaching a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning. In our case, we will look at how to infer a result or condition based on previous or existing data.

The authors of this book are not data scientists. Generally, we are IoT and cloud architects with a broad set of skills focused on the topics needed to deliver a complex IoT solution, including experience in data collection, engineering...