Mastering Azure Machine Learning by Kaijisse Waaijer, Christoph Körner

The increase being seen in data volume today requires distributed systems, powerful algorithms, and scalable cloud infrastructure to compute insights and train and deploy machine learning (ML) models. This book will help you improve your knowledge of building ML models using Azure and end-to-end ML pipelines on the cloud.

The book starts with an overview of an end-to-end ML project and a guide on how to choose the right Azure service for different ML tasks. It then focuses on Azure ML and takes you through the process of data experimentation, data preparation, and feature engineering using Azure ML and Python. You’ll learn advanced feature extraction techniques using natural language processing (NLP), classical ML techniques, and the secrets of both a great recommendation engine and a performant computer vision model using deep learning methods. You’ll also explore how to train, optimize, and tune models using Azure AutoML and HyperDrive, and perform distributed training on Azure ML. Then, you’ll learn different deployment and monitoring techniques using Azure Kubernetes Services with Azure ML, along with the basics of MLOps―DevOps for ML to automate your ML process as CI/CD pipeline.

By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered Azure ML and be able to confidently design, build and operate scalable ML pipelines in Azure.

What you will learn
Setup your Azure ML workspace for data experimentation and visualization
Perform ETL, data preparation, and feature extraction using Azure best practices
Implement advanced feature extraction using NLP and word embeddings
Train gradient boosted tree-ensembles, recommendation engines and deep neural networks on Azure ML
Use hyperparameter tuning and AutoML to optimize your ML models
Employ distributed ML on GPU clusters using Horovod in Azure ML
Deploy, operate and manage your ML models at scale
Automated your end-to-end ML process as CI/CD pipelines for MLOps
Who this book is for
This machine learning book is for data professionals, data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, or machine learning developers who want to master scalable cloud-based machine learning architectures in Azure. This book will help you use advanced Azure services to build intelligent machine learning applications. A basic understanding of Python and working knowledge of machine learning are mandatory.

Table of Contents
Building an End-to-end Machine Learning Pipeline
Choosing a Machine Learning Service in Azure
Data Experimentation and Visualization using Azure
ETL, Data Preparation and Feature Extraction
Advanced Feature Extraction with NLP
Building ML Models using Azure Machine Learning
Training Deep Neural Networks on Azure
Hyperparameter Tuning and Automated Machine Learning
Distributed Machine Learning on Azure ML Clusters
Building a Recommendation Engine in Azure
Deploying and Operating Machine Learning Models
MLOps – DevOps for Machine Learning
What’s next?