Section 1: Starting your cloud-based data science journey

An Azure Data Scientist Associate is a subject matter expert with applied data science and machine learning knowledge, able to run machine learning workloads on Azure. The responsibilities for this role include planning and creating a suitable working environment for data science workloads on Azure. In this section, you will get an overview of the data science and machine learning terminology used throughout the book. You will also learn how to provision and configure the Azure Machine Learning services, the de facto environment for running machine learning experiments in the Azure cloud.

This section comprises of the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, An Overview of Modern Data Science
• Chapter 2, Deploying Azure Machine Learning Workspace Resources
• Chapter 3, Azure Machine Learning Studio Components
• Chapter 4, Configuring the Workspace