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- Imagine predicting which customers are thinking about switching to a competitor or flagging potential process failures before they happen
- Think about the benefits of forecasting tedious business processes and back-office tasks
- Envision quickly gauging customer sentiment from social media content (even large volumes of it).
- Consider the competitive advantage of making decisions when you know the most likely future events
About the Technology
Machine learning can deliver huge benefits for everyday business tasks. With some guidance, you can get those big wins yourself without complex math or highly paid consultants! If you can crunch numbers in Excel, you can use modern ML services to efficiently direct marketing dollars, identify and keep your best customers, and optimize back office processes. This book shows you how.
About the Book
Machine Learning for Business teaches business-oriented machine learning techniques you can do yourself. Concentrating on practical topics like customer retention, forecasting, and back office processes, you’ll work through six projects that help you form an ML-for-business mindset. To guarantee your success, you’ll use the Amazon SageMaker ML service, which makes it a snap to turn your questions into results.
What's Inside
- Identifying tasks suited to machine learning
- Automating back office processes
- Using open source and cloud-based tools
- Relevant case studies
About the Reader
For technically inclined business professionals or business application developers.
About the Authors
Doug Hudgeon and Richard Nichol specialize in maximizing the value of business data through AI and machine learning for companies of any size.
Quotes
A clear and well-explained set of practical examples that demonstrates how to solve everyday problems, suitable for technical and nontechnical readers alike.
- John Bassil, Fethr
Answers the question of how machine learning can help your company automate processes.
- James Black, Nissan North America
A great resource for introducing machine learning through real-world examples.
- Shawn Eion Smith, Penn State University
Makes AI accessible to the regular business owner.
- Dhivya Sivasubramanian, Science Logic
Table of contents
- Part 1. Machine learning for business
- Chapter 1. How machine learning applies to your business
- Chapter 1. Why is automation important now?
- Chapter 1. How do machines make decisions?
- Chapter 1. Can a machine help Karen make decisions?
- Chapter 1. How does a machine learn?
- Chapter 1. Getting approval in your company to use machine learning to make decisions
- Chapter 1. The tools
- Chapter 1. Setting up SageMaker in preparation for tackling the scenarios in- n chapters 2 through 7
- Chapter 1. The time to act is now
- Chapter 1. Summary
- Part 2. Six scenarios: Machine learning for business
- Chapter 2. Should you send a purchase order to a technical approver?
- Chapter 2. The data
- Chapter 2. Putting on your training wheels
- Chapter 2. Running the Jupyter notebook and making predictions
- Chapter 2. Deleting the endpoint and shutting down your notebook instance
- Chapter 2. Summary
- Chapter 3. Should you call a customer because they are at risk of churning?
- Chapter 3. The process flow
- Chapter 3. Preparing the dataset
- Chapter 3. XGBoost primer
- Chapter 3. Getting ready to build the model
- Chapter 3. Building the model
- Chapter 3. Deleting the endpoint and shutting down your notebook instance
- Chapter 3. Checking to make sure the endpoint is deleted
- Chapter 3. Summary
- Chapter 4. Should an incident be escalated to your support team?
- Chapter 4. The process flow
- Chapter 4. Preparing the dataset
- Chapter 4. NLP (natural language processing)
- Chapter 4. What is BlazingText and how does it work?
- Chapter 4. Getting ready to build the model
- Chapter 4. Building the model
- Chapter 4. Deleting the endpoint and shutting down your notebook instance
- Chapter 4. Checking to make sure the endpoint is deleted
- Chapter 4. Summary
- Chapter 5. Should you question an invoice sent by a supplier?
- Chapter 5. The process flow
- Chapter 5. Preparing the dataset
- Chapter 5. What are anomalies
- Chapter 5. Supervised vs. unsupervised machine learning
- Chapter 5. What is Random Cut Forest and how does it work?
- Chapter 5. Getting ready to build the model
- Chapter 5. Building the model
- Chapter 5. Deleting the endpoint and shutting down your notebook instance
- Chapter 5. Checking to make sure the endpoint is deleted
- Chapter 5. Summary
- Chapter 6. Forecasting your company’s monthly power usage
- Chapter 6. Loading the Jupyter notebook for working with time-series data
- Chapter 6. Preparing the dataset: Charting time-series data
- Chapter 6. What is a neural network?
- Chapter 6. Getting ready to build the model
- Chapter 6. Building the model
- Chapter 6. Deleting the endpoint and shutting down your notebook instance
- Chapter 6. Checking to make sure the endpoint is deleted
- Chapter 6. Summary
- Chapter 7. Improving your company’s monthly power usage forecast
- Chapter 7. DeepAR’s greatest strength: Incorporating related time series
- Chapter 7. Incorporating additional datasets into Kiara’s power consumption model
- Chapter 7. Getting ready to build the model
- Chapter 7. Building the model
- Chapter 7. Deleting the endpoint and shutting down your notebook instance
- Chapter 7. Checking to make sure the endpoint is deleted
- Chapter 7. Summary
- Part 3. Moving machine learning into production
- Chapter 8. Serving predictions over the web
- Chapter 8. Overview of steps for this chapter
- Chapter 8. The SageMaker endpoint
- Chapter 8. Setting up the SageMaker endpoint
- Chapter 8. Setting up the serverless API endpoint
- Chapter 8. Creating the web endpoint
- Chapter 8. Serving decisions
- Chapter 8. Summary
- Chapter 9. Case studies
- Chapter 9. Case study 2: Faethm
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Summary
- Appendix A. Signing up for Amazon AWS
- Appendix A. AWS Billing overview
- Appendix B. Setting up and using S3 to store files
- Appendix B. Setting up folders in S3
- Appendix B. Uploading files to S3
- Appendix C. Setting up and using AWS SageMaker to build a machine learning system
- Appendix C. Starting at the Dashboard
- Appendix C. Creating a notebook instance
- Appendix C. Starting the notebook instance
- Appendix C. Uploading the notebook to the notebook instance
- Appendix C. Running the notebook
- Appendix D. Shutting it all down
- Appendix D. Shutting down the notebook instance
- Appendix E. Installing Python
Product information
- Title: Machine Learning for Business, Video Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2020
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: None
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