Pragmatic AI

Pragmatic AI is the first truly practical guide to solving real-world problems with contemporary machine learning artificial intelligence and cloud computing tools. Writing for business professionals decision-makers and students who aren't professional data scientists Noah Gift demystifies all the tools and technologies you need to get results. He illuminates powerful off-the-shelf cloud-based solutions from Google Amazon and Microsoft as well as accessible techniques using Python and R. Throughout you'll find simple clear and effective working solutions that show how to apply machine learning AI and cloud computing together in virtually any organisation creating solutions that deliver results and offer virtually unlimited scalability. Coverage includes: Getting and configuring all the tools you'll need Quickly and efficiently deploying AI applications using spreadsheets R and Python Mastering the full application lifecycle: Download Extract Transform Model Serve Results Getting started with Cloud Machine Learning Services Amazon's AWS AI Services and Microsoft's Cognitive Services API Uncovering signals in Facebook Twitter and Wikipedia Listening to channels via Slack bots running on AWS Lambda (serverless) Retrieving data via the Twitter API and extract follower relationships Solving project problems and find highly-productive developers for data science projects Forecasting current and future home sales prices with Zillow Using the increasingly popular Jupyter Notebook to create and share documents integrating live code equations visualisations and text