Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning, 1st edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (July 12, 2018) © 2019

  • Noah Gift

VitalSource eTextbook

ISBN-13: 9780134863917
Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning
Published 2018
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Title overview

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 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. Throughout, readers find simple, clear, and effective working solutions that show them how to apply machine learning, AI and cloud computing together in virtually any organization, creating solutions that deliver results, and offer virtually unlimited scalability.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction to Pragmatic AI
  • 2. Get Tools and Set Them Up
  • 3. Overview of Lifecycle
  • 4. Using Cloud Machine Learning Services
  • 5. Using AWS AI Services
  • 6. Cognitive Services API
  • 7. Finding Signals in Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia
  • 8. Write a Slack Bot that Runs on AWS Lambda (Serverless) and Listens to a Channel
  • 9. Retrieve Data from Twitter API and Extract Follower Relationships
  • 10. Identify Patterns of Highly Productive Developers (and Learn How to Find Similarly Productive Developers)
  • 11. Call EC2 Price AP
  • 12. Forecasting Current and Future Sales Price of a Home Using Zillow
  • Glossary
  • Appendices

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