{"id":2425,"date":"2017-05-15T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2017-10-10T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T01:28:42","slug":"2425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2425","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Machine Learning: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/leanpub.com\/amazonmachinelearning-anintroduction\/\">Amazon Machine Learning: An Introduction<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Amazon Machine Learning, or AML, provides you access to widely applicable machine learning algorithms without having to run any servers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This type of learning is useful for making predictions based on a set of data for which answers are known.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>AML supports supervised learning with the stochastic gradient descent algorithm.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The end goal of AML is to create a model, which is what will allow you to make further predictions based on past data.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">AML supports three different kinds of predictions.\u00a0 For binary outcomes, where observations lead to a yes\/no result, AML supports binary classification.\u00a0 An example would be whether or not a prospect is likely to sign up for a new account, given their past interactions with your company.\u00a0 For multi valued results, where observations lead to one of N results, AML supports multi class classification.\u00a0 A good example of this would be which product to show a customer, given what they&#8217;ve looked at and bought in the past.\u00a0 And, for numeric values, AML supports regression.\u00a0 An example of that would be predicting house prices based on sales data and house attributes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you are not trying to use existing data and create predictions out of it using supervised learning, but are trying to instead recognize images or tease out patterns in text, you may want to consider alternatives to AML.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my book, Amazon Machine Learning: An Introduction: Amazon Machine Learning, or AML, provides you access to widely applicable machine learning algorithms without having to run any servers.\u00a0 This type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-machine-learning","category-aws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}