DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure Questions and Answers

Configure logging with Azure Machine Learning studio

You can also enable Azure Application Insights from Azure Machine Learning studio. When you're ready to deploy your model as a web service, use the following steps to enable Application Insights:

1. Sign in to the studio at https://ml.azure.com.

2. Go to Models and select the model you want to deploy.

3. Select +Deploy.

4. Populate the Deploy model form.

5. Expand the Advanced menu.

6. Select Enable Application Insights diagnostics and data collection.

The following custom role can do everything in the workspace except for the following actions:

It can't create or update a compute resource.

It can't delete a compute resource.

It can't add, delete, or alter role assignments.

It can't delete the workspace.

To create a custom role, first construct a role definition JSON file that specifies the permission and scope for the role. The following example defines a custom role named "Data Scientist Custom" scoped at a specific workspace level:

data_scientist_custom_role.json :

{

"Name": "Data Scientist Custom",

"IsCustom": true,

"Description": "Can run experiment but can't create or delete compute.",

"Actions": ["*"],

"NotActions": [

"Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces/*/delete",

"Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces/write",

"Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces/computes/*/write",

"Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces/computes/*/delete",

"Microsoft.Authorization/*/write"

],

"AssignableScopes": [

"/subscriptions//resourceGroups//providers/Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces/"

]

}

B: You can use an Azure Resource Manager template to create a workspace for Azure Machine Learning.

Example:

{"type": "Microsoft.MachineLearningServices/workspaces",

…

C: You can create a workspace for Azure Machine Learning with Azure CLI

Install the machine learning extension.

Create a resource group: az group create --name --location

To create a new workspace where the services are automatically created, use the following command: az ml workspace create -w -g

D: You can create and manage Azure Machine Learning workspaces in the Azure portal.

Sign in to the Azure portal by using the credentials for your Azure subscription.

In the upper-left corner of Azure portal, select + Create a resource.

Use the search bar to find Machine Learning.

Select Machine Learning.

In the Machine Learning pane, select Create to begin.

Box 1: Mutual Information.

The mutual information score is particularly useful in feature selection because it maximizes the mutual information between the joint distribution and target variables in datasets with many dimensions.

Box 2: MedianValue

MedianValue is the feature column, , it is the predictor of the dataset.

Scenario: The MedianValue and AvgRoomsinHouse columns both hold data in numeric format. You need to select a feature selection algorithm to analyze the relationship between the two columns in more detail.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/filter-based-feature-selection

The Export Count Table module is provided for backward compatibility with experiments that use the Build Count Table (deprecated) and Count Featurizer (deprecated) modules.

E: Summarize Data statistics are useful when you want to understand the characteristics of the complete dataset. For example, you might need to know:

How many missing values are there in each column?

How many unique values are there in a feature column?

What is the mean and standard deviation for each column?

The module calculates the important scores for each column, and returns a row of summary statistics for each variable (data column) provided as input.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/export-count-table

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/summarize-data

The scikit-learn estimator provides a simple way of launching a scikit-learn training job on a compute target. It is implemented through the SKLearn class, which can be used to support single-node CPU training.

Example:

from azureml.train.sklearn import SKLearn

}

estimator = SKLearn(source_directory=project_folder,

compute_target=compute_target,

entry_script='train_iris.py'

)

In statistics, the Kendall rank correlation coefficient, commonly referred to as Kendall's tau coefficient (after the Greek letter τ), is a statistic used to measure the ordinal association between two measured quantities.

It is a supported method of the Azure Machine Learning Feature selection.

Scenario: When you train a Linear Regression module using a property dataset that shows data for property prices for a large city, you need to determine the best features to use in a model. You can choose standard metrics provided to measure performance before and after the feature importance process completes. You must ensure that the distribution of the features across multiple training models is consistent.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/feature-selection-modules

Box 1: Floating point

Need floating point for Median values.

Scenario: An initial investigation shows that the datasets are identical in structure apart from the MedianValue column. The smaller Paris dataset contains the MedianValue in text format, whereas the larger London dataset contains the MedianValue in numerical format.

Box 2: Unchanged

Note: Select the Categorical option to specify that the values in the selected columns should be treated as categories.

For example, you might have a column that contains the numbers 0,1 and 2, but know that the numbers actually mean "Smoker", "Non smoker" and "Unknown". In that case, by flagging the column as categorical you can ensure that the values are not used in numeric calculations, only to group data.

Box 1: Replace using MICE

Replace using MICE: For each missing value, this option assigns a new value, which is calculated by using a method described in the statistical literature as "Multivariate Imputation using Chained Equations" or "Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations". With a multiple imputation method, each variable with missing data is modeled conditionally using the other variables in the data before filling in the missing values.

Scenario: The AccessibilityToHighway column in both datasets contains missing values. The missing data must be replaced with new data so that it is modeled conditionally using the other variables in the data before filling in the missing values.

Box 2: Propagate

Cols with all missing values indicate if columns of all missing values should be preserved in the output.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/clean-missing-data

Step 1: Sweep Clustering

Start by using the "Tune Model Hyperparameters" module to select the best sets of parameters for each of the models we're considering.

One of the interesting things about the "Tune Model Hyperparameters" module is that it not only outputs the results from the Tuning, it also outputs the Trained Model.

Step 2: Train Model

Step 3: Evaluate Model

Scenario: You need to provide the test results to the Fabrikam Residences team. You create data visualizations to aid in presenting the results.

You must produce a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve to conduct a diagnostic test evaluation of the model. You need to select appropriate methods for producing the ROC curve in Azure Machine Learning Studio to compare the Two-Class Decision Forest and the Two-Class Decision Jungle modules with one another.

References:

https://breaking-bi.blogspot.com/2017/01/azure-machine-learning-model-evaluation.html

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient assesses how well the relationship between two variables can be described using a monotonic function.

Note: Both Spearman's and Kendall's can be formulated as special cases of a more general correlation coefficient, and they are both appropriate in this scenario.

Scenario: The MedianValue and AvgRoomsInHouse columns both hold data in numeric format. You need to select a feature selection algorithm to analyze the relationship between the two columns in more detail.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/feature-selection-modules

You need to implement an early stopping criterion on models that provides savings without terminating promising jobs.

Truncation selection cancels a given percentage of lowest performing runs at each evaluation interval. Runs are compared based on their performance on the primary metric and the lowest X% are terminated.

Example:

from azureml.train.hyperdrive import TruncationSelectionPolicy

early_termination_policy = TruncationSelectionPolicy(evaluation_interval=1, truncation_percentage=20, delay_evaluation=5)

Step 1: Augment the data

Scenario: Columns in each dataset contain missing and null values. The datasets also contain many outliers.

Step 2: Add the Bayesian Linear Regression module.

Scenario: You produce a regression model to predict property prices by using the Linear Regression and Bayesian Linear Regression modules.

Step 3: Configure the regularization weight.

Regularization typically is used to avoid overfitting. For example, in L2 regularization weight, type the value to use as the weight for L2 regularization. We recommend that you use a non-zero value to avoid overfitting.

Scenario:

Model fit: The model shows signs of overfitting. You need to produce a more refined regression model that reduces the overfitting.

Box 1: 500

For Random seed, type a value to use as seed for randomization. If you specify 0 (the default), a number is generated based on the system clock.

A seed value is optional, but you should provide a value if you want reproducibility across runs of the same experiment.

Here we must replicate the findings.

Box 2: Mean Absolute Error

Scenario: Given a trained model and a test dataset, you must compute the Permutation Feature Importance scores of feature variables. You need to set up the Permutation Feature Importance module to select the correct metric to investigate the model’s accuracy and replicate the findings.

Regression. Choose one of the following: Precision, Recall, Mean Absolute Error , Root Mean Squared Error, Relative Absolute Error, Relative Squared Error, Coefficient of Determination

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/permutation-feature-importance

Box 1: Accuracy

Scenario: You want to configure hyperparameters in the model learning process to speed the learning phase by using hyperparameters. In addition, this configuration should cancel the lowest performing runs at each evaluation interval, thereby directing effort and resources towards models that are more likely to be successful.

Box 2: R-Squared

Scenario: Testing

You must produce multiple partitions of a dataset based on sampling using the Partition and Sample module in Azure Machine Learning Studio.

Box 1: Assign to folds

Use Assign to folds option when you want to divide the dataset into subsets of the data. This option is also useful when you want to create a custom number of folds for cross-validation, or to split rows into several groups.

Not Head: Use Head mode to get only the first n rows. This option is useful if you want to test a pipeline on a small number of rows, and don't need the data to be balanced or sampled in any way.

Not Sampling: The Sampling option supports simple random sampling or stratified random sampling. This is useful if you want to create a smaller representative sample dataset for testing.

Box 2: Partition evenly

Specify the partitioner method: Indicate how you want data to be apportioned to each partition, using these options:

Partition evenly: Use this option to place an equal number of rows in each partition. To specify the number of output partitions, type a whole number in the Specify number of folds to split evenly into text box.

Create Scatterplot

Summarize Data

Clip Values

You can use the Clip Values module in Azure Machine Learning Studio, to identify and optionally replace data values that are above or below a specified threshold. This is useful when you want to remove outliers or replace them with a mean, a constant, or other substitute value.

References:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredev/2017/05/27/data-cleansing-tools-in-azure-machine-learning/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/clip-values

The linear discriminant analysis method works only on continuous variables, not categorical or ordinal variables.

Linear discriminant analysis is similar to analysis of variance (ANOVA) in that it works by comparing the means of the variables.

Scenario:

Data scientists must build notebooks in a local environment using automatic feature engineering and model building in machine learning pipelines.

Experiments for local crowd sentiment models must combine local penalty detection data.

All shared features for local models are continuous variables.

Scenario:

Experiments for local crowd sentiment models must combine local penalty detection data.

Crowd sentiment models must identify known sounds such as cheers and known catch phrases. Individual crowd sentiment models will detect similar sounds.

Note: Evaluate the changed in correlation between model error rate and centroid distance

In machine learning, a nearest centroid classifier or nearest prototype classifier is a classification model that assigns to observations the label of the class of training samples whose mean (centroid) is closest to the observation.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_centroid_classifier

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/sweep-clustering

Box 1: import pytorch as deeplearninglib

Box 2: ..DistributedSampler(Sampler)..

DistributedSampler(Sampler):

Sampler that restricts data loading to a subset of the dataset.

It is especially useful in conjunction with class:`torch.nn.parallel.DistributedDataParallel`. In such case, each process can pass a DistributedSampler instance as a DataLoader sampler, and load a subset of the original dataset that is exclusive to it.

Scenario: Sampling must guarantee mutual and collective exclusively between local and global segmentation models that share the same features.

Box 3: optimizer = deeplearninglib.train. GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate=0.10)

Step 1: Define a cross-entropy function activation

When using a neural network to perform classification and prediction, it is usually better to use cross-entropy error than classification error, and somewhat better to use cross-entropy error than mean squared error to evaluate the quality of the neural network.

Step 2: Add cost functions for each target state.

Step 3: Evaluated the distance error metric.

References:

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/04/fundamentals-deep-learning-regularization-techniques/

Step 1: Implement a K-Means Clustering model

Step 2: Use the cluster as a feature in a Decision jungle model.

Decision jungles are non-parametric models, which can represent non-linear decision boundaries.

Step 3: Use the raw score as a feature in a Score Matchbox Recommender model

The goal of creating a recommendation system is to recommend one or more "items" to "users" of the system. Examples of an item could be a movie, restaurant, book, or song. A user could be a person, group of persons, or other entity with item preferences.

Scenario:

Ad response rated declined.

Ad response models must be trained at the beginning of each event and applied during the sporting event.

Market segmentation models must optimize for similar ad response history.

Ad response models must support non-linear boundaries of features.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/multiclass-decision-jungle

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/score-matchbox-recommender

Post batch normalization statistics (PBN) is the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) version of how to evaluate the population mean and variance of Batch Normalization which could be used in inference Original Paper.

In CNTK, custom networks are defined using the BrainScriptNetworkBuilder and described in the CNTK network description language "BrainScript."

Scenario:

Local penalty detection models must be written by using BrainScript.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/post-batch-normalization-statistics

Scenario:

Performance curves of current and proposed cost factor scenarios are shown in the following diagram:

The ad propensity model uses a cut threshold is 0.45 and retrains occur if weighted Kappa deviated from 0.1 +/- 5%.

Split Data partitions the rows of a dataset into two distinct sets.

The Relative Expression Split option in the Split Data module of Azure Machine Learning Studio is helpful when you need to divide a dataset into training and testing datasets using a numerical expression.

Relative Expression Split: Use this option whenever you want to apply a condition to a number column. The number could be a date/time field, a column containing age or dollar amounts, or even a percentage. For example, you might want to divide your data set depending on the cost of the items, group people by age ranges, or separate data by a calendar date.

Scenario:

Local market segmentation models will be applied before determining a user’s propensity to respond to an advertisement.

The distribution of features across training and production data are not consistent

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/split-data