In this course, we define what machine learning is and how it can benefit your business. You'll see a few demos of ML in action and learn key ML terms like instances, features, and labels. In the interactive labs, you will practice invoking the pretrained ML APIs available as well as build your own Machine Learning models using just SQL with BigQuery ML.
Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud
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Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud
This course is part of From Data to Insights with Google Cloud Specialization
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
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7 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
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Explain what machine learning is and how it can benefit your business
Differentiate between pre-trained and custom ML models
Create machine learning datasets in BigQuery
Create machine learning models in BigQuery
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There are 6 modules in this course
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In this module, we define what Machine Learning is and how it can benefit your business. You'll see a few demos of ML in action and learn key ML terms like instances, features, and labels.
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6 videos1 assignment
In this module we will dive into pre-built and pre-trained ML models that we can access (like image recognition and sentiment analysis) within Cloud Datalab.
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4 videos1 assignment1 app item2 discussion prompts
Understand how to create ML datasets with BigQuery.
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6 videos1 assignment1 app item
In this module, you will learn how to create machine learning models directly inside of BigQuery. You will learn the new syntax and work through the phases of building, evaluating, and testing an ML model.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items
You've made it to the end! Let's review the lessons learned in the course and what resources are available for continued learning.
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