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Reading and storing data for custom model training on Vertex AI

Before you can train ML models in the cloud, you need to get your data to the cloud.  But when it comes to storing data on Google Cloud there are a lot of different options. Not to mention the different ways you can read in data when designing input pipelines for custom models. Should you …

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How to use Netezza Performance Server query data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

In this example, we will demonstrate using current data within a Netezza Performance Server as a Service (NPSaaS) table combined with historical data in Parquet files to determine if flight delays have increased in 2022 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the airline travel industry. This demonstration illustrates how Netezza Performance Server …

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Best practices for load testing Amazon SageMaker real-time inference endpoints

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service. With SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train ML models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. It provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so …

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Sparse Features Support in BigQuery

Introduction Most machine learning models require the input features to be in numerical format and if the features are in categorial format, pre-processing steps such as one-hot encoding are needed to convert them into numerical format. Converting a large number of categorical values may lead to creating sparse features, a set of features that contains …

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Get smarter search results with the Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking and OpenSearch plugin

If you’ve had the opportunity to build a search application for unstructured data (i.e., wiki, informational web sites, self-service help pages, internal documentation, etc.) using open source or commercial-off-the-shelf search engines, then you’re probably familiar with the inherent accuracy challenges involved in getting relevant search results. The intended meaning of both query and document can …

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Model hosting patterns in Amazon SageMaker, Part 1: Common design patterns for building ML applications on Amazon SageMaker

Machine learning (ML) applications are complex to deploy and often require the ability to hyper-scale, and have ultra-low latency requirements and stringent cost budgets. Use cases such as fraud detection, product recommendations, and traffic prediction are examples where milliseconds matter and are critical for business success. Strict service level agreements (SLAs) need to be met, …

Processing W2 & Payslips is now even simpler with Document AI

Documents like payslips and W2s are crucial to processes such as employment and income verification for mortgage loans, personal loans, personal finance, and benefits processing. Unfortunately, efficiently extracting data from these documents at scale can be challenging and time-consuming, with many organizations relying on manual examination of documents or automated approaches that don’t adequately capture …

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Best practices for creating Amazon Lex interaction models

Amazon Lex is an AWS service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text, enabling businesses to add sophisticated, natural language chatbots across different channels. Amazon Lex uses machine learning (ML) to understand natural language (normal conversational text and speech). In this post, we go through a set of best practices for …

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Power recommendations and search using an IMDb knowledge graph – Part 3

This three-part series demonstrates how to use graph neural networks (GNNs) and Amazon Neptune to generate movie recommendations using the IMDb and Box Office Mojo Movies/TV/OTT licensable data package, which provides a wide range of entertainment metadata, including over 1 billion user ratings; credits for more than 11 million cast and crew members; 9 million …

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AWS positioned in the Leaders category in the 2022 IDC MarketScape for APEJ AI Life-Cycle Software Tools and Platforms Vendor Assessment

The recently published IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) AI Life-Cycle Software Tools and Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment positions AWS in the Leaders category. This was the first and only APEJ-specific analyst evaluation focused on AI life-cycle software from IDC. The vendors evaluated for this MarketScape offer various software tools needed to support end-to-end machine learning …