PublishedAddison-Wesley, July 2018 |
ISBN9780134863863 |
FormatSoftcover, 256 pages |
Dimensions23cm × 18cm × 2cm |
Pragmatic AI is the first truly practical guide to solving real-world problems with contemporary machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing tools. Writing for business professionals, decision-makers, and students who aren't professional data scientists, Noah Gift demystifies all the tools and technologies you need to get results.
He illuminates powerful off-the-shelf cloud-based solutions from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as accessible techniques using Python and R. Throughout, you'll find simple, clear, and effective working solutions that show how to apply machine learning, AI and cloud computing together in virtually any organisation, creating solutions that deliver results, and offer virtually unlimited scalability. Coverage includes:
Getting and configuring all the tools you'll need
Quickly and efficiently deploying AI applications using spreadsheets, R, and Python
Mastering the full application lifecycle: Download, Extract, Transform, Model, Serve Results
Getting started with Cloud Machine Learning Services, Amazon's AWS AI Services, and Microsoft's Cognitive Services API
Uncovering signals in Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia
Listening to channels via Slack bots running on AWS Lambda (serverless)
Retrieving data via the Twitter API and extract follower relationships
Solving project problems and find highly-productive developers for data science projects
Forecasting current and future home sales prices with Zillow
Using the increasingly popular Jupyter Notebook to create and share documents integrating live code, equations, visualisations, and text
