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Mastering Azure Machine Learning

You're reading from Mastering Azure Machine Learning

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Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789807554

Pages 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Machine Learning

Authors (2):

Christoph Körner

Kaijisse Waaijer

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

About Mastering Azure Machine Learning

Section 1: Azure Machine Learning

1. Building an end-to-end machine learning pipeline in Azure

2. Choosing a machine learning service in Azure

Section 2: Experimentation and Data Preparation

3. Data experimentation and visualization using Azure

4. ETL, data preparation, and feature extraction

5. Azure Machine Learning pipelines

6. Advanced feature extraction with NLP

Section 3: Training Machine Learning Models

7. Building ML models using Azure Machine Learning

8. Training deep neural networks on Azure

9. Hyperparameter tuning and Automated Machine Learning

10. Distributed machine learning on Azure

11. Building a recommendation engine in Azure

Section 4: Optimization and Deployment of Machine Learning Models

12. Deploying and operating machine learning models

13. MLOps—DevOps for machine learning

14. What's next?

Index

Introduction to recommender engines

In today's digital world, recommendation engines are ubiquitous among many industries. Many online businesses, such as streaming, shopping, news, and social media, rely at their core on recommending the most relevant articles, news, and items to their users. How often have you clicked on a suggested video on YouTube, scrolled through your Facebook feed, listened to a personalized playlist on Spotify, or clicked on a recommended article on Amazon?

If you ask yourself what the term relevant means for the different services and industries, you are on the right track. In order to recommend relevant information to the user, we need to first define a relevancy metric, and a way to describe and compare different items and their similarity. These two properties are the key to understanding the different recommendation engines. We will learn more about this in the following sections of this chapter.

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Authors (2)

Christoph Körner

Christoph Körner previously worked as a cloud solution architect for Microsoft, specializing in Azure-based big data and machine learning solutions, where he was responsible for designing end-to-end machine learning and data science platforms. He currently works for a large cloud provider on highly scalable distributed in-memory database services. Christoph has authored four books: Deep Learning in the Browser for Bleeding Edge Press, as well as Mastering Azure Machine Learning (first edition), Learning Responsive Data Visualization, and Data Visualization with D3 and AngularJS for Packt Publishing.

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Kaijisse Waaijer

Kaijisse Waaijer is an experienced technologist specializing in data platforms, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. Kaijisse currently works for Microsoft EMEA as a data platform consultant specializing in data science, machine learning, and big data. She works constantly with customers across multiple industries as their trusted tech advisor, helping them optimize their organizational data to create better outcomes and business insights that drive value using Microsoft technologies. Her true passion lies within the trading systems automation and applying deep learning and neural networks to achieve advanced levels of prediction and automation.

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