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Know how to do machine learning with Microsoft technologies. This book teaches you to do predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive analyses with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, HD Insight, and more.

The ability to analyze massive amounts of real-time data and predict future behavior of an organization is critical to its long-term success. Data science, and more specifically machine learning (ML), is today´s game changer and should be a key building block in every company´s strategy. Managing a machine learning process from business understanding, data acquisition and cleaning, modeling, and deployment in each tool is a valuable skill set.

Machine Learning with Microsoft Technologies is a demo-driven book that explains how to do machine learning with Microsoft technologies. You will gain valuable insight into designing the best architecture for development, sharing, and deploying a machine learning solution. This book simplifies the process of choosing the right architecture and tools for doing machine learning based on your specific infrastructure needs and requirements.

Detailed content is provided on the main algorithms for supervised and unsupervised machine learning and examples show ML practices using both R and Python languages, the main languages inside Microsoft technologies.

What You´ll Learn

Choose the right Microsoft product for your machine learning solution
Create and manage Microsoft´s tool environments for development, testing, and production of a machine learning project
Implement and deploy supervised and unsupervised learning in Microsoft products
Set up Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, and HD Insight to perform machine learning
Set up a data science virtual machine and test-drive installed tools, such as Azure ML Workbench, Azure ML Server Developer, Anaconda Python, Jupyter Notebook, Power BI Desktop, Cognitive Services, machine learning and data analytics tools, and more
Architect a machine learning solution factoring in all aspects of self service, enterprise, deployment, and sharing

Who This Book Is For
Data scientists, data analysts, developers, architects, and managers who want to leverage machine learning in their products, organization, and services, and make educated, cost-saving decisions about their ML architecture and tool set.

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Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Introduction to Machine Learning

Chapter 2: Introduction to R

Chapter 3: Introduction to Python

Chapter 4: R Visualization in Power BI

Part II: Machine Learning with R and Power BI

Chapter 5: Business Understanding

Chapter 6: Data Wrangling for Predictive Analysis

Chapter 7: Predictive Analysis in Power Query with R

Chapter 8: Descriptive Analysis in Power Query with R

Part III: Machine Learning SQL Server

Chapter 9: Using R with SQL Server 2016 and 2017

Part IV: Machine Learning in Azure

Chapter 10: Azure DataBricks

Chapter 11: R in Azure Data Lake

Chapter 12: Azure Machine Learning Studio

Chapter 13: Machine Learning in Azure Stream Analytics

Chapter 14: Azure Machine Learning (ML) Workbench

Chapter 15: Machine Learning on HDInsight

Chapter 16: Data Science Virtual Machine and AI Framework

Chapter 17: Deep Learning Tools with Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)

Part V: Data Science Virtual Machine

Chapter 18: Cognitive Service Toolkit

Chapter 19: Bot Framework

Chapter 20: Overview on Microsoft Machine Learning Tools

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