Deploying ML
The main goal of machine learning is to create a model that you can use for making predictions. Over the past few chapters in this book, you learned about the various algorithms used to build an ideal machine learning model. At the end of the entire process, what you really want is to make your model accessible to users so that they can utilize it to do useful tasks, like making predictions (such as helping doctors with their diagnosis, and so forth).
A good way to deploy your machine learning model is to build a REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API, so that the model is accessible by others who may not be familiar with how machine learning works. Using REST, you can build multi‐platform front‐end applications (such as iOS, Android, Windows, and so forth) and pass the data to the model for processing. The result can then be returned back to the application. Figure 12.1 summarizes the architecture that we will use for deploying our machine learning model...
