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Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Machine Learning Azure Machine Learning Microsoft Azure Essentials Jeff Barnes Visit us today at microsoftpressstore.com • Hundreds of titles available – Books, eBooks, and online resources from industry experts • Free U.S. shipping • eBooks in multiple formats – Read on your computer, tablet, mobile device, or e-reader • Print & eBook Best Value Packs • eBook Deal of the Week – Save up to 60% on featured titles • Newsletter and special offers – Be the first to hear about new releases, specials, and more • Register your book – Get additional benefits Hear about it first. Get the latest news from Microsoft Press sent to your inbox. • New and upcoming books • Special offers • Free eBooks • How-to articles Sign up today at MicrosoftPressStore.com/Newsletters Wait, there’s more... 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If you need support related to this book, email Microsoft Press Support at [email protected]. Please tell us what you think of this book at http://aka.ms/tellpress. This book is provided “as-is” and expresses the authors’ views and opinions. The views, opinions, and information expressed in this book, including URL and other Internet website references, may change without notice. Unless otherwise noted, the companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted in examples herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred. Microsoft and the trademarks listed at http://www.microsoft.com on the “Trademarks” webpage are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other marks are property of their respective owners. Acquisitions, Developmental, and Project Editor: Devon Musgrave Editorial Production: nSight, Inc. Copyeditor: Teresa Horton Cover: Twist Creative 1 Table of Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Who should read this book ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Assumptions .................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 This book might not be for you if… ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Organization of this book ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 Conventions and features in this book ................................................................................................................................... 9 System requirements ...................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Acknowledgments .........................................................................................................................................................................10 Errata, updates, & support .........................................................................................................................................................10 Free ebooks from Microsoft Press...........................................................................................................................................11 Free training from Microsoft Virtual Academy ..................................................................................................................11 We want to hear from you .........................................................................................................................................................11 Stay in touch ....................................................................................................................................................................................12 Chapter 1 Introduction to the science of data ............................................................................................................... 13 What is machine learning? .........................................................................................................................................................13 Today’s perfect storm for machine learning .......................................................................................................................16 Predictive analytics ........................................................................................................................................................................17 Endless amounts of machine learning fuel..........................................................................................................................17 Everyday examples of predictive analytics ..........................................................................................................................19 Early history of machine learning ............................................................................................................................................19 Science fiction becomes reality ................................................................................................................................................22 Summary ...........................................................................................................................................................................................23 Resources ..........................................................................................................................................................................................23 Chapter 2 Getting started with Azure Machine Learning ........................................................................................... 25 Core concepts of Azure Machine Learning .........................................................................................................................25 High-level workflow of Azure Machine Learning .............................................................................................................26 Azure Machine Learning algorithms ......................................................................................................................................27 2 Supervised learning ...................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Unsupervised learning ................................................................................................................................................................. 33 Deploying a prediction model ................................................................................................................................................. 34 Show me the money .................................................................................................................................................................... 35 The what, the how, and the why ............................................................................................................................................. 36 Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Resources .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 3 Using Azure ML Studio ...................................................................................................................................... 38 Azure Machine Learning terminology .................................................................................................................................. 38 Getting started...............................................................................................................................................................................
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