Cloud AcademyDuration: 1h 26m | Video: h264 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 44kHz 2Ch | 1.1 GBGenre: eLearning | Language: English | Difficulty: IntermediateDescriptionOverviewThis training course begins with an introduction to the concepts of Distributed Machine Learning.
We’ll discuss the reasons as to why and when you should consider training your machine learning model within a distributed environment.
Apache SparkWe’ll introduce you to Apache Spark and how it can be used to perform machine learning both at scale and speed.
Apache Spark is an open-source cluster-computing framework.
Amazon Elastic Map ReduceWe’ll introduce you to Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce service, or EMR for short.
EMR provides a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process vast amounts of data.
EMR can be easily configured to host Apache Spark.
Spark MLlibWe’ll introduce you to MLlib which is Spark’s machine learning module.
We’ll discuss how MLlib can be used to perform various machine learning tasks.
For this course, we’ll focus our attention on decision trees as a machine learning method which the MLlib module supports.
A decision tree is a type of supervised machine learning algorithm used often for classification problems.
AWS GlueWe’ll introduce you to AWS Glue.
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load service, ETL for short.
We’ll show you how AWS Glue can be used to prepare our datasets before they are used to train our machine learning models.
DemonstrationFinally, we’ll show you how to use each of the aforementioned services together to launch an EMR cluster configured and pre-installed with Apache Spark for the purpose of training a machine learning model using a decision tree.
This demonstration will provide an end-to-end solution that provides machine learning predictive capabilities.
Intended AudienceThe intended audience for this course includes:Data scientists and/or data analystsAnyone interested in learning and performing distributed machine learning, or machine learning at scaleAnyone with an interest in Apache Spark and/or Amazon Elastic MapReduceLearning ObjectivesBy completing this course, you will:Understand what Distributed machine learning is and what it offersUnderstand the benefits of Apache Spark and Elastic MapReduceUnderstand Spark MLlib as machine learning frameworkCreate your own distributed machine learning environment consisting of Apache Spark, MLlib, and Elastic MapReduce.
Understand how to use AWS Glue to perform ETL on your datasets in preparation for training a your machine learning modelKnow how to operate and execute a Zeppelin notebook, resulting in job submission to your Spark clusterUnderstand what a machine learning Decision Tree is and how to code one using MLlibPre-requisitesThe following prerequisites will be both useful and helpful for this course:A background in statistics or probabilityBasic understanding of data analyticsGeneral development and coding experienceAWS VPC networking and IAM security experience (for the demonstrations)Course AgendaThe agenda for the remainder of this course is as follows:We’ll discuss what Distributed Machine Learning is and when and why you might consider using itWe’ll review the Apache Spark application, and its MLlib machine learning moduleWe’ll review the Elastic MapReduce serviceWe’ll provide an understanding what a Decision Tree is – and what types of analytical problems it is suited towardsWe’ll review the basics of using Apache Zeppelin notebooks – which can be used for interactive machine learning sessionsWe’ll review AWS Glue.
We’ll show you how you can use AWS Glue to perform ETL to prepare our datasets for ingestion into a machine learning pipeline.
Finally – We’ll present a demonstration of a fully functional distributed machine learning environment implemented using Spark running on top of an EMR cluster
