The Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS

You learn about each phase of the pipeline through presentations and demonstrations by the trainers and apply this knowledge to implement a project to solve one of three business problems: fraud detection, recommendation engines, or flight delays.
By the end of the course, you will have successfully built, trained, evaluated, tuned, and deployed an ML model using Amazon SageMaker that solves your selected business problem.

Day 1
Module 0: Introduction

• Pre-assessment

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
• Hands-on: Amazon SageMaker and Jupyter notebooks

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
• Practice problem formulation
• Formulate problems for projects

Day 2

Checkpoint 1 and Answer Review
Module 4: Preprocessing

• Overview of data collection and integration, and techniques for data preprocessing and visualization
• Practice preprocessing
• Preprocess project data
• Class discussion about projects

Day 3

Checkpoint 2 and Answer Review
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

Module 6: Model Evaluation

• How to evaluate classification models
• How to evaluate regression models
• Practice model training and evaluation
• Train and evaluate project models
• Initial project presentations

Day 4

Checkpoint 3 and Answer Review
Module 7: Feature Engineering and Model Tuning

• Feature extraction, selection, creation, and transformation
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Demo: SageMaker hyperparameter optimization
• Practice feature engineering and model tuning
• Apply feature engineering and model tuning to projects
• Final project presentations

Module 8: Deployment

• How to deploy, inference, and monitor your model on Amazon SageMaker
• Deploying ML at the edge
• Demo: Creating an Amazon SageMaker endpoint
• Post-assessment
• Course wrap-up