Azure Big Data & Machine Learning

Matthias Gessenay & Roman A. Kahr

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Agenda

Introduction to Azure Data Science Tools

Azure Data Lake

Hadoop

Azure Jupyter Notebooks

Azure Machine Learning Studio

Machine Learning

Regression vs. Classification vs. Neural Network

Sampling Probleme

Case: Building predictive Web Service with Azure ML

Data Analysis

Implementation Algorithm & Web Service

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Matthias Gessenay

Co-Founder Corporate Software AG

Microsoft Professional Program – Data Science, ITIL Expert, MCSA/E/ITP/A/E

Senior Consultant & Trainer

Matthias.Gessenay@corporatesoftware.ch

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Roman A. Kahr

Corporate Software AG

Microsoft Data Science Professional

Consultant & Trainer

Roman.Kahr@corporatesoftware.ch

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Corporate Software

Founded 2011 in Biel/Bienne

Microsoft Partner

Gold Cloud Productivity

Gold Collaboration and Content

Gold Project and Portfolio Management

Gold Data Analytics

17 Consultants

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Azure Data Science Tools – Big Picture

Bring together all your Data

Exploding Data Volumes

Unstructured Data

No bounds – no cost tradeoff

Improve performance

On-prem infrastructure too slow

Difficulty to build a distributed on-prem infrastructure

Cost-intensive

Scalability

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Data Lake

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Data Lake

Two Parts:

Data Lake Store

Data Lake Analytics

U-SQL

Similar to T-SQL

Range of extensions: R, Python..

200x more storage

Pay-as-you-go

1TB ~ 35$ p.a

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HDInsight

Hadoop in common world

Principles:

Split work

Split Data from Analytics

Pros of Azure

Scalability

Pay-as-you-go/cost optimization

Fast deployment

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Jupyter Notebook

Virtual instance to run R or Python

Nice interface

Highly performant

Perfectly integrated into the Azure ecosystem

Perfect to make presentations of analysis!

Demo (Analyzing the Data)

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Machine Learning

“Giving the computer the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed”

Supervised learning

Regression

Unsurpervised learning

Clustering, neural nets

Reinforced learning

AlphaGo

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Machine Learning – Sampling Issue

Inductive

Issue before Data Science: Capacity!

Paid price: inaccuracy

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Problems by using on-prem solution

Say you have a performant working algorithm

How do you consume the data?

Request/Response API

How are you working with additional data?

How do you manage the costs?

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Azure Machine Learning Studio

Free (for the moment)

Unlimited computing power

Prewritten modules

Possibility to use R code

Existing API to consume a trained model

Prewritten Web Applications are shared

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Demo

~2 Mio flights

Arrival/Departure Zurich

Set of attributes

Objective: Train a model to predict if a plane is on time or not and publish the trained model to a web application where the end user can consume this data

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Logistic Regression

Problem with linear regressions:

Min < 0

Max > 1

Fit is bad!

Solution: Logistic Regression:

Min == 0

Max == 1

Regression vs. Classification?

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Method

Jupyter

Merge and clean data

Transform the data

Analyze

Azure ML

Choose type of machine learning

Build predictive model

Publish Web Service

Build Web application

Outcome: simple Website predicting if a flight is on time or not