Zafar Abdugaffarov
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Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing
Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Strategies for Cloud Security Risk Management
Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Cloud Security Risks: Identify and Protect Against Threats
Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Detect, Respond, and Recover from Cloud Cybersecurity Attacks
Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Put It All Together: Prepare for a Cloud Security Analyst Job
Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Put It All Together: Prepare for a Cloud Security Analyst Job
Earned Jul 16, 2024 EDT
Detect, Respond, and Recover from Cloud Cybersecurity Attacks
Earned Jul 15, 2024 EDT
Cloud Security Risks: Identify and Protect Against Threats
Earned Jun 13, 2024 EDT
Strategies for Cloud Security Risk Management
Earned May 29, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing
Earned May 16, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Apr 23, 2024 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: ACE Exam Prep
Earned Apr 13, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Agent Platform
Earned Apr 7, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Apr 7, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Apr 1, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned Mar 31, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Mar 31, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud
Earned Mar 20, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Agent Platform
Earned Mar 19, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED]Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Mar 12, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Mar 12, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Mar 12, 2024 EDT
Manage Data Models in Looker
Earned Mar 9, 2024 EST
Build LookML Objects in Looker
Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Data Catalog Fundamentals
Earned Feb 28, 2024 EST
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker
Earned Feb 28, 2024 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
Earned Feb 22, 2024 EST
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Feb 21, 2024 EST
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports
Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Developing Data Models with LookML
Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker
Earned Feb 4, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Data Analytics Essentials
Earned Jan 25, 2024 EST
DEPRECATED Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI
Earned Nov 16, 2023 EST
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 5, 2023 EST
ML Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 31, 2023 EDT
MLOps with Agent Platform: Manage Features
Earned Oct 7, 2023 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started
Earned Oct 5, 2023 EDT
Recommendation Systems on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 5, 2023 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 28, 2023 EDT
Natural Language Processing on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 21, 2023 EDT
Computer Vision Fundamentals with Google Cloud
Earned Sep 5, 2023 EDT
Production Machine Learning Systems
Earned Aug 23, 2023 EDT
Machine Learning in the Enterprise
Earned Aug 21, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Feature Engineering
Earned Jul 27, 2023 EDT
[Depricated] Build, Train and Deploy ML Models with Keras on Google Cloud
Earned Jul 9, 2023 EDT
Launching into Machine Learning
Earned Jun 26, 2023 EDT
How Google Does Machine Learning
Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Earned May 24, 2023 EDT
This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.
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This is the second of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore widely-used cloud risk management frameworks, exploring security domains, compliance lifecycles, and industry standards such as HIPAA, NIST CSF, and SOC. You'll develop skills in risk identification, implementation of security controls, compliance evaluation, and data protection management. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with Google Cloud and multi-cloud tools specific to risk and compliance. This course also incorporates job application and interview preparation techniques, offering a comprehensive foundation to understand and effectively navigate the complex landscape of cloud risk management.
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This is the third of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the principles of identity management and access control within a cloud environment, covering key elements like AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing), credential handling, and certificate management. You'll also explore essential topics in threat and vulnerability management, cloud-native principles, and data protection measures. Upon completing this course, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to secure cloud-based resources and safeguard sensitive organizational information. Additionally, you'll continue to engage with career resources and hone your interview techniques, preparing you for the next step in your professional journey.
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This is the fourth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll focus on developing capabilities in logging, security, and alert monitoring, along with techniques for mitigating attacks. You'll gain valuable knowledge in customizing threat feeds, managing incidents, handling crisis communications, conducting root cause analysis, and mastering incident response and post-event communications. Using Google Cloud tools, you'll learn to identify indicators of compromise and prepare for business continuity and disaster recovery. Alongside these technical skills, you'll continue updating your resume and practicing interview techniques.
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This is the fifth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll combine and apply key concepts such as cloud security principles, risk management, identifying vulnerabilities, incident management, and crisis communications in an interactive capstone project. Additionally, you'll finalize your resume updates and put to practice all the new interview techniques you've learned, preparing you to confidently apply for and interview for jobs in the field.
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This is the fifth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll combine and apply key concepts such as cloud security principles, risk management, identifying vulnerabilities, incident management, and crisis communications in an interactive capstone project. Additionally, you'll finalize your resume updates and put to practice all the new interview techniques you've learned, preparing you to confidently apply for and interview for jobs in the field.
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This is the fourth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll focus on developing capabilities in logging, security, and alert monitoring, along with techniques for mitigating attacks. You'll gain valuable knowledge in customizing threat feeds, managing incidents, handling crisis communications, conducting root cause analysis, and mastering incident response and post-event communications. Using Google Cloud tools, you'll learn to identify indicators of compromise and prepare for business continuity and disaster recovery. Alongside these technical skills, you'll continue updating your resume and practicing interview techniques.
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This is the third of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the principles of identity management and access control within a cloud environment, covering key elements like AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing), credential handling, and certificate management. You'll also explore essential topics in threat and vulnerability management, cloud-native principles, and data protection measures. Upon completing this course, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to secure cloud-based resources and safeguard sensitive organizational information. Additionally, you'll continue to engage with career resources and hone your interview techniques, preparing you for the next step in your professional journey.
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This is the second of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore widely-used cloud risk management frameworks, exploring security domains, compliance lifecycles, and industry standards such as HIPAA, NIST CSF, and SOC. You'll develop skills in risk identification, implementation of security controls, compliance evaluation, and data protection management. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with Google Cloud and multi-cloud tools specific to risk and compliance. This course also incorporates job application and interview preparation techniques, offering a comprehensive foundation to understand and effectively navigate the complex landscape of cloud risk management.
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This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam.
You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook in Gemini Notebook , and learn how to use a study guide to practice for a certification exam.
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The Generative AI Explorer - Agent Platform course is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the Gemini models in Agent Platform. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via custom training in Agent Platform and deploy it to an endpoint in Agent Platform.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you.
In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.
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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Agent Platform skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Agent Platform. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies.
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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.
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Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. You can still complete this course if you want to. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog (https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog). Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, understand, and manage all of their data. In this quest you will start small by learning how to search and tag data assets and metadata with Data Catalog. After learning how to build your own tag templates that map to BigQuery table data, you will learn how to build MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer to Data Catalog Connectors.
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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.
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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.
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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Data Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization.
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This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.
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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.
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Discover how to turn raw numbers into clear, data-driven decisions on Google Cloud. Through hands-on labs and practical real-world scenarios, this beginner-level course guides you through querying data in BigQuery, exploring trends in Looker, and crafting shareable, interactive reports in Data Studio.
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI skill badge course, where you learn how to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, AutoML, and custom training services to train, evaluate, tune, explain, and deploy machine learning models.
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Managed Service for Apache Spark, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.
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In this course, you will be learning from ML Engineers and Trainers who work with the state-of-the-art development of ML pipelines here at Google Cloud. The first few modules will cover about TensorFlow Extended (or TFX), which is Google’s production machine learning platform based on TensorFlow for management of ML pipelines and metadata. You will learn about pipeline components and pipeline orchestration with TFX. You will also learn how you can automate your pipeline through continuous integration and continuous deployment, and how to manage ML metadata. Then we will change focus to discuss how we can automate and reuse ML pipelines across multiple ML frameworks such as tensorflow, pytorch, scikit learn, and xgboost. You will also learn how to use another tool on Google Cloud, Cloud Composer, to orchestrate your continuous training pipelines. And finally, we will go over how to use MLflow for managing the complete machine learning life cycle.
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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production.
Learners will get hands-on practice using Agent Platform Feature Store's streaming ingestion at the SDK layer.
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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine Learning Engineering professionals use tools for continuous improvement and evaluation of deployed models. They work with (or can be) Data Scientists, who develop models, to enable velocity and rigor in deploying the best performing models.
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In this course, you apply your knowledge of classification models and embeddings to build a ML pipeline that functions as a recommendation engine.
This is the fifth and final course of the Advanced Machine Learning on Google Cloud series.
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This course introduces Google Cloud's AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, with a focus on developing both generative and predictive AI projects. It explores the various technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI lifecycle, empowering data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers to enhance their expertise through interactive exercises.
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This course introduces the products and solutions to solve NLP problems on Google Cloud. Additionally, it explores the processes, techniques, and tools to develop an NLP project with neural networks by using Vertex AI and TensorFlow.
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This course describes different types of computer vision use cases and then highlights different machine learning strategies for solving these use cases. The strategies vary from experimenting with pre-built ML models through pre-built ML APIs and AutoML Vision to building custom image classifiers using linear models, deep neural network (DNN) models or convolutional neural network (CNN) models.
The course shows how to improve a model's accuracy with augmentation, feature extraction, and fine-tuning hyperparameters while trying to avoid overfitting the data.
The course also looks at practical issues that arise, for example, when one doesn't have enough data and how to incorporate the latest research findings into different models.
Learners will get hands-on practice building and optimizing their own image classification models on a variety of public datasets in the labs they will work on.
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This course covers how to implement the various flavors of production ML systems— static, dynamic, and continuous training; static and dynamic inference; and batch and online processing. You delve into TensorFlow abstraction levels, the various options for doing distributed training, and how to write distributed training models with custom estimators.
This is the second course of the Advanced Machine Learning on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Image Understanding with TensorFlow on Google Cloud course.
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This course takes a real-world approach to the ML Workflow through a case study. An ML team faces several ML business requirements and use cases. The team must understand the tools required for data management and governance and consider the best approach for data preprocessing.
The team is presented with three options to build ML models for two use cases. The course explains why they would use AutoML, BigQuery ML, or custom training to achieve their objectives.
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This course explores the benefits of using Vertex AI Feature Store, how to improve the accuracy of ML models, and how to find which data columns make the most useful features. This course also includes content and labs on feature engineering using BigQuery ML, Keras, and TensorFlow.
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This course covers building ML models with TensorFlow and Keras, improving the accuracy of ML models and writing ML models for scaled use.
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The course begins with a discussion about data: how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis. We describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code. You will understand the benefits of Big Query ML. We then discuss how to optimize a machine learning (ML) model and how generalization and sampling can help assess the quality of ML models for custom training.
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This course explores what ML is and what problems it can solve. The course also discusses best practices for implementing machine learning. You’re introduced to Vertex AI, a unified platform to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models.
The course discusses the five phases of converting a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning, and why it’s important to not skip them. The course ends with recognizing the biases that ML can amplify and how to recognize them.
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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
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