Microsoft DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure Exam Practice Test

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/studi o-module-reference/split-data

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.

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

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/

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

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/a zure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/score-matchbox-recommender

Instead use Permutation Feature Importance Explainer (PFI).

Note 1:

Note 2: Permutation Feature Importance Explainer (PFI): Permutation Feature Importance is a technique used to explain classification and regression models. At a high level, the way it works is by randomly shuffling data one feature at a time for the entire dataset and calculating how much the performance metric of interest changes. The larger the change, the more important that feature is. PFI can explain the overall behavior of any underlying model but does not explain individual predictions.

D: For Number of learning iterations, specify the maximum number of times the algorithm should process the training cases.

E: For Hidden layer specification, select the type of network architecture to create.

Between the input and output layers you can insert multiple hidden layers. Most predictive tasks can be

accomplished easily with only one or a few hidden layers.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning /studio-module-reference/two-class-neural-network

Deploying an Azure Machine Learning model as a web service creates a REST API endpoint. You can send data to this endpoint and receive the prediction returned by the model.

You create a web service when you deploy a model to your local environment, Azure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service, or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). You retrieve the URI used to access the web service by using the Azure Machine Learning SDK. If authentication is enabled, you can also use the SDK to get the authentication keys or tokens.

Example:

# URL for the web service

scoring_uri = ''

# If the service is authenticated, set the key or token

key = ''

Use get_details_with_logs() to fetch the run details and logs created by the run.

You can monitor Azure Machine Learning runs and view their logs with the Azure Machine Learning studio.

Azure Cognitive Services expand on Microsoft’s evolving portfolio of machine learning APIs and enable developers to easily add cognitive features – such as emotion and video detection; facial, speech, and vision recognition; and speech and language understanding – into their applications. The goal of Azure Cognitive Services is to help developers create applications that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason. The catalog of services within Azure Cognitive Services can be categorized into five main pillars - Vision, Speech, Language, Search, and Knowledge.

References:

https://doc s.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/welcome

Permutation Feature Importance Explainer (PFI): Permutation Feature Importance is a technique used to explain classification and regression models. At a high level, the way it works is by randomly shuffling data one feature at a time for the entire dataset and calculating how much the performance metric of interest changes. The larger the change, the more important that feature is. PFI can explain the overall behavior of any underlying model but does not explain individual predictions.

To translate a corpus of English text to French, we need to build a recurrent neural network (RNN).

Note: RNNs are designed to take sequences of text as inputs or return sequences of text as outputs, or both.

They’re called recurrent because the network’s hidden layers have a loop in which the output and cell state from each time step become inputs at the next time step. This recurrence serves as a form of memory. It allows contextual information to flow through the network so that relevant outputs from previous time steps can be applied to network operations at the current time step.

References:

https://towardsdatascience.com/language-translation-with-rnns-d84d43b40571

Entropy MDL binning mode: This method requires that you select the column you want to predict and the column or columns that you want to group into bins. It then makes a pass over the data and attempts to determine the number of bins that minimizes the entropy. In other words, it chooses a number of bins that allows the data column to best predict the target column. It then returns the bin number associated with each row of your data in a column named quantized.

References:

https://docs.m icrosoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio-module-reference/group-data-into-bins

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Step 1: Create an Azure DevOps project

Step 2: Create a release pipeline

• Sign in to your Azure DevOps organization and navigate to your project.
• Go to Pipelines, and then select New pipeline.

Step 3: Install the Machine Learning extension for Azure Pipelines

You must install and configure the Azure CLI and ML extension.

Step 4: Create a service connection

How to set up your service connection

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Select AzureMLWorkspace for the scope level, then fill in the following subsequent parameters.

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Note: How to enable model triggering in a release pipeline

• Go to your release pipeline and add a new artifact. Click on AzureML Model artifact then select the appropriate AzureML service connection and select from the available models in your workspace.
• Enable the deployment trigger on your model artifact as shown here. Every time a new version of that model is registered, a release pipeline will be triggered.

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Step 1: Install Docker on the workstation

Prerequisites include having a working Docker installation on your local system.

Build or download the dockerfile to the compute node.

Step 2: Create an AksWebservice deployment configuration and deploy the model to it

To deploy a model to Azure Kubernetes Service, create a deployment configuration that describes the compute resources needed.

# If deploying to a cluster configured for dev/test, ensure that it was created with enough

# cores and memory to handle this deployment configuration. Note that memory is also used by

# things such as dependencies and AML components.

deployment_config = AksWebservice.deploy_configuration(cpu_cores = 1, memory_gb = 1)

service = Model.deploy(ws, "myservice", [model], inference_config, deployment_config, aks_target)

service.wait_for_deployment(show_output = True)

print(service.state)

print(service.get_logs())

Step 3: Create a LocalWebservice deployment configuration for the service and deploy the model to it

To deploy locally, modify your code to use LocalWebservice.deploy_configuration() to create a deployment configuration. Then use Model.deploy() to deploy the service.

Step 4: Debug and modify the scoring script as necessary. Use the reload() method of the service after each modification.

During local testing, you may need to update the score.py file to add logging or attempt to resolve any problems that you've discovered. To reload changes to the score.py file, use reload(). For example, the following code reloads the script for the service, and then sends data to it.

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

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: 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:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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/dat a-cleansing-tools-in-azure-machine-learning/

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

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.

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

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

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