Azure Machine Learning For R Practitioners With The R SDK

As probably you already know, Microsoft provided its Azure Machine Learning SDK for Python to build and run machine learning workflows, helping organizations to use massive data sets and bring all the benefits of the Azure cloud to machine learning.

Although Microsoft initially invested in R as the Advanced Analytics preferred language introducing the SQL Server R server and R services in the 2016 version, they abruptly shifted their attention to Python, investing exclusively on it. This basically happened for the following reasons:

• Python’s simple syntax and readability make the language accessible to non-programmers
• The most popular machine learning and deep learning open source libraries (such as Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.) are deeply used by the Python community
• Python is a better choice for productionalization: it’s relatively very fast; it implements OOPs concepts in a better way; it is scalable (Hadoop/Spark); it has better functionality to interact with other systems; etc.

Azure ML Python SDK Main Key Points

One of the most valuable aspects of the Python SDK is its ease to use and flexibility. You can simply use just few classes, injecting them into your existing code…