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

Introducing the business scenario

For this business scenario, we can imagine being a ML expert in New York City. Among all the activities that the city should perform, a census of the trees and verifying their condition is one of the most time-consuming.

The trees are spread across different areas of New York City and the process of collecting information about each tree is performed manually by volunteers or New York City employees. After the collection of the information, the data is stored in a database and made publicly available through a BigQuery public dataset for further analyses (https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/city-of-new-york/nyc-tree-census).

In the following figure, we can see a picture from Central Park, one of the areas with more trees in New York City:

Figure 6.1 – Trees in Central Park, New York City

In order to support and accelerate the job of the people in charge of classifying the trees and assessing their...