The course begins with a discussion about data: how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis. We describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code. You will understand the benefits of Big Query ML. We then discuss how to optimize a machine learning (ML) model and how generalization and sampling can help assess the quality of ML models for custom training.
Launching into Machine Learning
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Launching into Machine Learning
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What you'll learn
Describe how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis
Build and train AutoML Models using Vertex AI and BigQuery ML
Optimize and evaluate models using loss functions and performance metrics
Create repeatable and scalable training, evaluation, and test datasets
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There are 8 modules in this course
This module provides an overview of the course and its objectives.
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In this module, we look at how to improve the quality of our data and how to explore our data by performing exploratory data analysis. We look at the importance of tidy data in Machine Learning and show how it impacts data quality. For example, missing values can skew our results. You will also learn the importance of exploring your data. Once we have the data tidy, you will then perform exploratory data analysis on the dataset.
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9 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items
In this module, we will introduce some of the main types of machine learning so that you can accelerate your growth as an ML practitioner.
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6 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item
In this module, we will introduce training AutoML Models using Vertex AI.
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
In this module, we will introduce BigQuery ML and its capabilities.
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7 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item
In this module we will walk you through how to optimize your ML models.
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12 videos1 reading1 assignment
Now it’s time to answer a rather weird question: when is the most accurate ML model not the right one to pick? As we hinted at in the last module on Optimization -- simply because a model has a loss metric of 0 for your training dataset does not mean it will perform well on new data in the real world. You will learn how to create repeatable training, evaluation, and test datasets and establish performance benchmarks.
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
This module is a summary of the Launching into Machine Learning course
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