Module 1: Introduction to Machine Learning
- Types of ML
- Job Roles in ML
- Steps in the ML pipeline
Module 2: Introduction to Data Prep and SageMaker
- Training and Test dataset defined
- Introduction to SageMaker
- Demo: SageMaker console
- Demo: Launching a Jupyter notebook
Module 3: Problem formulation and Dataset Preparation
- Business Challenge: Customer churn
- Review Customer churn dataset
Module 4: Data Analysis and Visualization
- Demo: Loading and Visualizing your dataset
- Exercise 1: Relating features to target variables
- Exercise 2: Relationships between attributes
- Demo: Cleaning the data
Module 5: Training and Evaluating a Model
- Types of Algorithms
- XGBoost and SageMaker
- Demo 5: Training the data
- Exercise 3: Finishing the Estimator definition
- Exercise 4: Setting hyperparameters
- Exercise 5: Deploying the model
- Demo: Hyperparameter tuning with SageMaker
- Demo: Evaluating Model Performance
Module 6: Automatically Tune a Model
- Automatic hyperparameter tuning with SageMaker
- Exercises 6-9: Tuning Jobs
Module 7: Deployment / Production Readiness
- Deploying a model to an endpoint
- A/B deployment for testing
- Auto Scaling Scaling
- Demo: Configure and Test Autoscaling
- Demo: Check Hyperparameter tuning job
- Demo: AWS Autoscaling
- Exercise 10-11: Set up AWS Autoscaling
Module 8: Relative Cost of Errors
- Cost of various error types
- Demo: Binary Classification cutoff
Module 9: Amazon SageMaker Architecture and features
- Accessing Amazon SageMaker notebooks in a VPC
- Amazon SageMaker batch transforms
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
- Amazon SageMaker Neo
