Machine Learning at Scale
In this course, you will gain theoretical and practical knowledge of Apache Spark’s architecture and its application to machine learning workloads within Databricks. You will learn when to use Spark for data preparation, model training, and deployment, while also gaining hands-on experience with Spark ML and pandas APIs on Spark. This course will introduce you to advanced concepts like hyperparameter tuning and scaling Optuna with Spark. This course will use features and concepts introduced in the associate course such as MLflow and Unity Catalog for comprehensive model packaging and governance.
In this course, the content was developed for participants with these skills/knowledge/abilities:
• Familiarity with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and basic workspace operations (create clusters, run code in notebooks, use basic notebook operations, import repos from git)
• Intermediate programming experience with Python, including data manipulation libraries (pandas, numpy) and machine learning frameworks (scikit-learn)
• Basic knowledge of Apache Spark and PySpark fundamentals, including DataFrames, transformations, and actions for distributed data processing
• Understanding of machine learning concepts, including model training, evaluation, hyperparameter tuning, and deployment workflows
• Intermediate experience with Delta Lake operations (create tables, perform updates, optimize files, time travel functionality)
• Basic familiarity with MLflow for experiment tracking, model logging, and model registry operations
• Understanding of distributed computing concepts (cluster architecture, parallelization, scalability considerations)
• Basic knowledge of SQL for data querying and manipulation within Spark environments
Outline
Machine Learning Development with Spark
• Spark Architecture Overview
• Introduction to Spark ML for Model Development
• Model Tracking and Packaging with MLflow
• Model Development with Spark
Distributed Model Tuning on Databricks
• Overview of Hyperparameter Tuning
• Scalable HPO Frameworks on Databricks
• Hyperparameter Tuning with SparkML
• HPO with Ray Tune
Deploying Machine Learning Models with Spark
• Deployment with Spark
• Inference with Spark
• Model Deployment with Spark
• Optimization Strategies with Spark and Delta Lake
• Model Deployment with Spark
Pandas on Spark
• Scaling with Pandas APIs
• Pandas UDFs and Function APIs
• Pandas APIs
• Recap and CTA
Upcoming Public Classes
Date | Time | Your Local Time | Language | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 01 | 01 PM - 05 PM (Australia/Sydney) | - | English | $750.00 |
Sep 01 | 09 AM - 01 PM (America/New_York) | - | English | $750.00 |
Oct 01 | 09 AM - 01 PM (Asia/Kolkata) | - | English | $750.00 |
Oct 01 | 09 AM - 01 PM (Europe/Paris) | - | English | $750.00 |
Oct 01 | 01 PM - 05 PM (America/New_York) | - | English | $750.00 |
Public Class Registration
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