Mastering Azure Machine Learning – Second Edition: Execute large-scale end-to-end machine learning with Azure
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Supercharge and automate your deployments to Azure Machine Learning clusters and Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure Machine Learning services
Key Features:
Implement end-to-end machine learning pipelines on AzureTrain deep learning models using Azure compute infrastructureDeploy machine learning models using MLOps
Book Description:
Azure Machine Learning is a cloud service for accelerating and managing the machine learning (ML) project life cycle that ML professionals, data scientists, and engineers can use in their day-to-day workflows. This book covers the end-to-end ML process using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, including data preparation, performing and logging ML training runs, designing training and deployment pipelines, and managing these pipelines via MLOps.
The first section shows you how to set up an Azure Machine Learning workspace; ingest and version datasets; as well as preprocess, label, and enrich these datasets for training. In the next two sections, you’ll discover how to enrich and train ML models for embedding, classification, and regression. You’ll explore advanced NLP techniques, traditional ML models such as boosted trees, modern deep neural networks, recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, and complex distributed ML training techniques – all using Azure Machine Learning.
The last section will teach you how to deploy the trained models as a batch pipeline or real-time scoring service using Docker, Azure Machine Learning clusters, Azure Kubernetes Services, and alternative deployment targets.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to combine all the steps you’ve learned by building an MLOps pipeline.
What You Will Learn:
Understand the end-to-end ML pipelineGet to grips with the Azure Machine Learning workspaceIngest, analyze, and preprocess datasets for ML using the Azure cloudTrain traditional and modern ML techniques efficiently using Azure MLDeploy ML models for batch and real-time scoringUnderstand model interoperability with ONNXDeploy ML models to FPGAs and Azure IoT EdgeBuild an automated MLOps pipeline using Azure DevOps
Who this book is for:
This book is for machine learning engineers, data scientists, and machine learning developers who want to use the Microsoft Azure cloud to manage their datasets and machine learning experiments and build an enterprise-grade ML architecture using MLOps. This book will also help anyone interested in machine learning to explore important steps of the ML process and use Azure Machine Learning to support them, along with building powerful ML cloud applications. A basic understanding of Python and knowledge of machine learning are recommended.
Publisher : Packt Publishing; 2nd ed. edition (May 10, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 624 pages
ISBN-10 : 1803232412
ISBN-13 : 978-1803232416
Item Weight : 2.35 pounds
Dimensions : 9.25 x 7.52 x 1.29 inches
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Byer –
Fast intro..
just saying, you need some basic statistical background, some knowledge of linear regression, and probability. The first chapter assumes you know all that. If you don’t you will be lost. Thank goodness I have the background and everything looked familiar. Otherwise I enjoy reading it. I have a strong background coding in R Studio, so coding in Azure is new to me too, using Python.
Stanley P. –
This book is a disaster
I bought this book thinking the author is so well entrenched in Azure ML at Microsoft that I would get well-written instructions. I was wrong about that assumption. The book is riddled with mistakes and skipped steps. Some reference the author made to chapters didn’t exist in those chapters. I don’t doubt that the author is a genius in his respect, but the book is a dud. It’s an electronic book, I wish I could get my money back. STAY AWAY!
Om S –
Data Nerds and Mastering Azure machine learning!
The second edition of this book is very much improved in practically accelerating and managing machine learning projects, state of art hot concepts and services are included, and a good number of practical examples have been covered, making it easy to follow and learn step by step.Very basic statistics have also been covered which will make you happy.This book covers a wide variety of topics that are being used in the ML life cycle to make a project successful, from ideas to the real-world production model. There are very few books that cover end-to-end ML processes, azure machine learning book is one of them which includes data preparation, feature engineering, hyperparameters tuning, advanced NLP, distributed machine learning, data analysis visualization, performing and logging ml training runs, designing training and deployment pipelines, bringing models into production with MLOPs.Last but not least you will learn how to integrate IoT and Power BI with Azure machine learning and so much more.If you have âAzure Data Scientist Associate certificationâ on your to-do list this book will brush up and build a good foundation with a lot of basic concepts.This is not a newcomer book you need to have some idea of basic ML concepts before you jump on this. It will be helpful in terms of understanding adventure packed 600 pages book and your ML journey will be more enjoyable.In the second edition, I was expecting some different project ideas for readers and more references which would have made this book more valuable.I would recommend this book to any ML practitioner.
Jagannath Banerjee –
End to End Machine Learning in Azure
Mastering Azure Machine Learning (Second Edition) is an excellent book of reference for anyone working on AI/ML in Azure Platform. This 600 page book will beat Azure ML documentation any day :). Book covers entire lifecycle from concept to implementation for Machine Learning, NLP, Recommender system and Deep Learning with right amount of theory and code (Python).Authors start with concepts and life cycle of a Machine learning project, followed by creating workspace in Azure, choose correct ML Services (Studio/Auto ML/Designer) , data preparation, ingestion thru various methods, data visualization , feature engineering, feature extraction for NLP, hyper-parameter tuning and deployment and generate endpoints for consumptions.ML Model value add is hard to quantify unless its deployed. That leads to my favorite chapters :Ch-14 : Model Deployment, Endpoints and Operations – This chapters covers model deployment for batch & real time in great details. Explains how to register a model, define compute clusters for scoring, install packages, create contain instances and deploy in AKS.Ch:16 : Bringing Models into production using MLOps. This chapter explains deployment using CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps. Deployment concepts have been explained in great details. For the next edition, I would love to see an end to end pipeline scripts considering the environment, variables, keys and secrets into actions in the pipeline yml file.I would suggest this book for someone with basic understanding of Azure Environment, Python, Machine Learning.Overall fantastic effort from authors and great book!
Harish Venkatesh –
Book Reviewð¥
Got this book from official Packt website”Mastering Azure Machine Learning (Second edition)” by Christoph Korner and Marcel Alsdorf is a great book to learn how to perform end-to-end Machine Learning on Microsoft Azure Cloud.The book covers topics around various practical Machine Learning use cases and how to deploy them on Azure.Reasons to read this book:1. This book help you understand how to set up workspaces along with guiding you how you could bring in the data to these services.2. The books takes you a step further by helping you understand how you could build NLP, CNN and recommendation engines.3. You get to learn how you can deploy your models on production using Azure Kubernetes Services and MLOps.4. The author has done a great job on capturing important concepts of using distributed frameworks on Azure and hardware optimization and MLOps.Parts of the book I enjoyed the most was Distributed Machine Learning using Horovod framework (Chapter 12)and Integrating ML services with Azure IoT Edge (Chapter 15).I strongly recommend this book for Data Scientists, ML Engineers and students with basic understanding of Python and ML to understand the different components to build and deploy ML/AI model using Azure
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Not a great buy. Doesnât capture details as are required for wokring with azure ml