Wouldn’t it be cool if we could train a machine learning model to predict machine performance? In this post, we’ll look at a linear regression model I built using BQML to predict the performance of a machine given hardware and software specifications.

All of the work I do is software related so I rarely think about the hardware running my code — this gave me an opportunity to learn about the hardware side of things.

The dataset: SPEC

To train this model I used data from SPEC*, an organization that builds tools for evaluating computer performance and energy efficiency. They published a series…

I’m constantly fascinated by machine learning and always excited to find new projects for it. But as trendy as ML has become, sometimes a SQL query or IF statement can accomplish the same job as an ML model in much less time. I wanted to gauge interest in this topic before diving in, so I sketched a quick flowchart while on a plane and posted it on Twitter:

I guess this is something a lot of people are thinking about! In this post I’ll go through the paths in the flowchart with specific examples using real datasets. This series…

I’m always looking for new datasets for ML projects, so I was particularly excited to discover this public domain dataset of ~400k congressional bills. The dataset has 20+ data points for each bill. Here’s an example a subset of this data for one bill:

• Title: A bill to provide for the expansion of the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge Honolulu County Hawaii
• ID: 109-S-1165
• URL: https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1165
• Topic: Public Lands
• Date Introduced: 6 June 2005
• Date Passed: 25 May 2006
• Congressperson who introduced it: Daniel Inouye
• Passed: Yes

The bills from this dataset were all manually assigned a topic by domain…

Want to build an ML model but don’t have enough training data? In this post I’ll show you how I built an ML pipeline that gathers labeled, crowdsourced training data, uploads it to an AutoML dataset, and then trains a model. I’ll be showing an image classification model using AutoML Vision in this example but the same pipeline could easily be adapted to AutoML Natural Language. Here’s an overview of how it works:

• A web app asks users to upload an image and assign a label
• Using Cloud Functions for Firebase, the labeled image gets uploaded to Cloud Storage
• When…

If you haven’t heard about AutoML yet, it‘s the newest ML offering on Google Cloud and lets you build custom ML models trained on your own data — no model code required. It’s currently available for images, text, and translation models. There are lots of resources out there to help you prepare your data and train models in AutoML, so in this post I want to focus on the prediction (or serving) part of AutoML.

I’ll walk you through building a simple web app to generate predictions on your trained model. It makes use of Firebase and Cloud Functions so…

Did you miss the AutoML announcements and demos during the Cloud Next ’18 keynote? I‘ve got you covered! In this post I’ll provide an overview of the AutoML products launched and the demos I showed during the keynote. I’ll also share some insights on the demo building process so that you can apply it to your own demos, if that’s your thing.

What is AutoML?

AutoML is a new ML offering on Google Cloud that lets you train custom machine learning models on your own data. The best part? …

Can you put a dollar value on “elegant, fine tannins,” “ripe aromas of cassis,” or “dense and toasty”? It turns out a machine learning model can. In this post I’ll explain how I built a wide and deep network using Keras (tf.keras) to predict the price of wine from its description. For those of you new to Keras, it’s the higher level TensorFlow API for building ML models. And if you’d like to skip right to the code, it’s available on GitHub here. You can also run the model directly in the browser with zero setup using Colab here.

Shout-out…

Note: as of this writing there is no official TensorFlow library for Swift, I used Swift to build the client app for prediction requests against my model. This may change in the future, but Taylor has the final say on that.

Here’s what we’re building: