Machine Learning Pipelines on AWS

This course explores how to use the machine learning (ML) pipeline to solve a real business problem in a project-based learning environment.
Students will learn about each phase of the pipeline from instructor presentations and demonstrations and then apply that knowledge to complete a project solving one of three business problems: fraud detection, recommendation engines, or flight delays.
By the end of the course, students will have successfully built, trained, evaluated, tuned, and deployed an ML model using Amazon SageMaker that solves their selected business problem.

In this course, you will learn how to:

Select and justify the appropriate ML approach for a given business problem
Use the ML pipeline to solve a specific business problem
Train, evaluate, deploy, and tune an ML model in Amazon SageMaker
Describe some of the best practices for designing scalable, cost-optimized, and secure ML pipelines in AWS
Apply machine learning to a real-life business problem after the course is complete

DAY 1
Module 1: Introduction to Machine Learning and the ML Pipeline

Overview of machine learning, including use cases, types of machine learning, and key concepts
Overview of the ML pipeline
Introduction to course projects and approach

Module 2: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker

Introduction to Amazon SageMaker
Demo: Amazon SageMaker and Jupyter notebooks
Lab 1: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker

Module 3: Problem Formulation

Overview of problem formulation and deciding if ML is the right solution
Converting a business problem into an ML problem
Demo: Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
Hands-on: Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
Problem Formulation Exercise and Review
Project work for Problem Formulation

DAY 2
Recap and Checkpoint #1
Module 4: Preprocessing

Overview of data collection and integration, and techniques for data preprocessing and visualization
Lab 2: Data Preprocessing (including project work)

Module 5: Model Training

Choosing the right algorithm
Formatting and splitting your data for training
Loss functions and gradient descent for improving your model
Demo: Create a training job in Amazon SageMaker

DAY 3
Recap and Checkpoint #2
Module 6: Model Training

How to evaluate classification models
How to evaluate regression models
Practice model training and evaluation
Train and evaluate project models
Lab 3: Model Training and Evaluation (including project work)
Project Share-Out 1

Module 7: Feature Engineering and Model Tuning

Feature extraction, selection, creation, and transformation
Hyperparameter tuning
Demo: SageMaker hyperparameter optimization

DAY 4
Lab 4: Feature Engineering (including project work)
Recap and Checkpoint #3
Module 8: Module Deployment

How to deploy, inference, and monitor your model on Amazon SageMaker
Deploying ML at the edge

Module 9: Course Wrap-Up

Project Share-Out 2
Post-Assessment
Wrap-up