Duration

5 Days

Description

This course teaches you how to build Vertex AI AutoML models without writing a single line of code, build BigQuery ML models knowing basic SQL, create Vertex AI custom training jobs you deploy using containers ‒ with little knowledge of Docker, use Feature Store for data management and governance, feature engineering for model improvement, determine the appropriate data preprocessing options for your use case, write distributed ML models that scale in TensorFlow, and leverage best practices to implement machine learning on Google Cloud. Learn all this and more!

Objectives:

This course teaches participants the following skills:

• Build, train and deploy a machine learning model without writing a single line of code using Vertex AI AutoML
• Understand when to use AutoML and Big Query ML
• Create Vertex AI managed datasets
• Add features to a Feature Store.
  Describe Analytics Hub, Dataplex, Data Catalog
• Describe hyperparameter tuning using Vertex Vizier and how it can
  be used to improve model performance
• Create a Vertex AI Workbench User-Managed Notebook, build a
  custom training job, then deploy it using a Docker container
• Describe batch and online predictions and model monitoring
• Describe how to improve data quality
• Perform exploratory data analysis
• Build and train supervised learning models
• Optimize and evaluate models using loss functions and
  performance metrics
• Create repeatable and scalable train, eval, and test datasets
• Implement ML models using TensorFlow/Keras
• Describe how to represent and transform features
• Understand the benefits of using feature engineering
• Explain Vertex AI Pipelines

Course Outline

The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.

Module 1: How Google Does Machine Learning

• Describe the Vertex AI Platform and how it is used to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models without writing a single line of code
• Describe best practices for implementing machine learning on Google Cloud
• Develop a data strategy around machine learning
• Examine use cases that are then reimagined through an ML lens
• Leverage Google Cloud Platform tools and environment to do ML

Module 2: Launching into Machine Learning

• Describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code
• Describe BigQuery ML and its benefits
• Describe how to improve data quality
• Perform exploratory data analysis
• Build and train supervised learning models
• Optimize and evaluate models using loss functions and performance metrics
• Mitigate common problems that arise in machine learning
• Create repeatable and scalable training, evaluation, and test datasets.

Module 3: TensorFlow on Google Cloud

• Create TensorFlow and Keras machine learning models
• Describe TensorFlow key components
• Use the tf.data library to manipulate data and large datasets
• Build a ML model using tf.keras preprocessing layers
• Use the Keras Sequential and Functional APIs for simple and advanced model creation. Understand how model subclassing can be used for more customized models.

Module 4: Feature Engineering

• Describe Vertex AI Feature Store
• Compare the key required aspects of a good feature
• Combine and create new feature combinations through feature crosses
• Perform feature engineering using BQML, Keras, and TensorFlow
• Understand how to preprocess and explore features with Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Dataprep
• Understand and apply how TensorFlow transforms features.

Module 5: Machine Learning in the Enterprise

• Understand the tools required for data management and governance
• Describe the best approach for data preprocessing – from providing an overview of DataFlow and DataPrep to using SQL for preprocessing tasks
• Explain how AutoML, BQML, and custom training differ and when to use a particular framework
• Describe hyperparameter tuning using Vertex Vizier and how it can be used to improve model performance
• Explain prediction and model monitoring and how Vertex AI can be used to manage ML models
• Describe the benefits of Vertex AI Pipelines