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Machine Learning with Databricks

Welcome to Machine Learning with Databricks!

This course is your gateway to mastering machine learning workflows on Databricks. Dive into data preparation, model development, deployment, and operations, guided by expert instructors. Learn essential skills for data exploration, model training, and deployment strategies tailored for Databricks. By course end, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to navigate the entire machine learning lifecycle on the Databricks platform, empowering you to build and deploy robust machine learning solutions efficiently.


Data Preparation for Machine Learning

This course focuses on the fundamentals of preparing data for machine learning using Databricks. Participants will learn essential skills for exploring, cleaning, and organizing data tailored for traditional machine learning applications. Key topics include data visualization, feature engineering, and optimal feature storage strategies. Through practical exercises, participants will gain hands-on experience in efficiently preparing data sets for machine learning within the Databricks. This course is designed for associate-level data scientists and machine learning practitioners. and individuals seeking to enhance their proficiency in data preparation, ensuring a solid foundation for successful machine learning model deployment.


Machine Learning Model Development

This comprehensive course provides a practical guide to developing traditional machine learning models on Databricks, emphasizing hands-on demonstrations and workflows using popular ML libraries. Participants will explore key ML techniques, including regression and clustering, while leveraging Databricks’ powerful capabilities. The course covers MLflow integration for model tracking, Databricks Feature Store for feature management, and Optuna for hyperparameter tuning. Additionally, participants will learn how to accelerate model training with Databricks AutoML. By the end of the course, learners will have real-world, practical skills to develop, optimize, and deploy machine learning models efficiently in the Databricks environment.


Machine Learning Model Deployment

This course is designed to introduce three primary machine learning deployment strategies and illustrate the implementation of each strategy on Databricks. Following an exploration of the fundamentals of model deployment, the course delves into batch inference, offering hands-on demonstrations and labs for utilizing a model in batch inference scenarios, along with considerations for performance optimization. The second part of the course comprehensively covers pipeline deployment, while the final segment focuses on real-time deployment. Participants will engage in hands-on demonstrations and labs, deploying models with Model Serving and utilizing the serving endpoint for real-time inference.


Machine Learning Operations

This course will guide participants through a comprehensive exploration of machine learning model operations, focusing on MLOps and model lifecycle management. The initial segment covers essential MLOps components and best practices, providing participants with a strong foundation for effectively operationalizing machine learning models. In the latter part of the course, we will delve into the basics of the model lifecycle, demonstrating how to navigate it seamlessly using the Model Registry in conjunction with the Unity Catalog for efficient model management. By the course's conclusion, participants will have gained practical insights and a well-rounded understanding of MLOps principles, equipped with the skills needed to navigate the intricate landscape of machine learning model operations.


Languages Available: English | 日本語 | Português BR | 한국어

Skill Level
Associate
Duration
16h
Prerequisites

At a minimum, you should be familiar with the following before attempting to take this content:

• Completed the Get Started with Databricks for Machine Learning (Onboarding) course or possess equivalent foundational knowledge of working in the Databricks environment.

• Intermediate-level proficiency in Python programming for data preparation and analysis.

• Basic understanding of machine learning fundamentals.

• Familiarity with Databricks platform workflows.

• Basic knowledge of data formats and lakehouse concepts.

• Foundational understanding of exploratory data analysis and basic statistics.

• 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 working with APIs (databricks-sdk, REST endpoints)

• Basic knowledge of MLflow for experiment tracking, model logging, model registry operations, and model versioning

• Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model training, evaluation, batch inference, and real-time deployment concepts

• Intermediate experience with Unity Catalog for data governance and model registry management

• Basic familiarity with Feature Engineering concepts, including feature tables, feature lookups, and offline vs online feature stores

• Understanding of Delta Lake operations (create tables, perform updates, optimize files, and liquid clustering) and data storage optimization techniques

• Basic knowledge of Apache Spark and PySpark for distributed data processing and User Defined Functions (UDFs)

• Knowledge of fundamental concepts of machine learning, MLflow tracking

• Familiarity with Databricks workspace and notebooks

• Intermediate level knowledge of Python

Outline

Data Preparation for Machine Learning

• Managing and Exploring Data
• Data Preparation and Feature Engineering
• Feature Store


Machine Learning Model Development

• Model Development Workflow

• Hyperparameter Tuning

• AutoML


Machine Learning Model Deployment

• Model Deployment Fundamentals

• Batch Deployment

• Pipeline Deployment

• Real-time Deployment and Online Stores


Machine Learning Operations

• Modern MLOps

• Architecting MLOps Solutions

• Implementation and Monitoring MLOps Solution

Upcoming Public Classes

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Time
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Apr 21 - 24
11 AM - 03 PM (Asia/Singapore)
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English
$1500.00
Apr 23 - 24
09 AM - 05 PM (Europe/London)
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English
$1500.00
May 12 - 13
08 AM - 04 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
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English
$1500.00
May 19 - 20
08 AM - 04 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
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English
$1500.00
May 19 - 20
09 AM - 05 PM (Europe/Paris)
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English
$1500.00
May 19 - 20
09 AM - 05 PM (America/New_York)
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English
$1500.00
Jun 09 - 10
08 AM - 04 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
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English
$1500.00
Jun 23 - 24
09 AM - 05 PM (Australia/Sydney)
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English
$1500.00
Jun 23 - 24
09 AM - 05 PM (Europe/Paris)
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English
$1500.00
Jun 23 - 24
09 AM - 05 PM (America/New_York)
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English
$1500.00
Jul 15 - 16
08 AM - 04 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
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English
$1500.00
Jul 22 - 23
08 AM - 04 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
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English
$1500.00
Jul 22 - 23
09 AM - 05 PM (Europe/Paris)
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English
$1500.00
Jul 22 - 23
09 AM - 05 PM (America/New_York)
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English
$1500.00

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Upcoming Public Classes

Building Reliable Conversational Agents with Genie

This course teaches you how to design, build, and maintain a Databricks Genie Space, a natural language interface that enables business users to ask questions about governed data and receive SQL-backed answers without writing code.

You will learn how Genie fits into the Databricks AI/BI product family and how it translates natural language into reliable SQL queries. The course focuses on what it takes to create a Genie Space that delivers accurate, consistent, and trustworthy results.

You will follow a complete end-to-end workflow, from understanding source data and defining benchmarks to configuring and refining a Genie Space using the full set of Knowledge Store curation tools. These include metadata, synonyms, prompt matching, SQL logic, example queries, and text instructions.

You will also learn how to share Genie Spaces with business users through Databricks One, understand how Unity Catalog governance is automatically enforced, and use monitoring and user feedback to continuously improve quality over time.

By the end of the course, you will be able to create and manage a production-ready Genie Space that delivers governed, self-service conversational analytics at scale.

Note: Databricks Academy is transitioning to a notebook-based format for classroom sessions within the Databricks environment, discontinuing the use of slide decks for lectures. You can access the lecture notebooks in the Vocareum lab environment.

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4h
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instructor-led
Associate

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