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Published inOct 2023
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Gareth Eagar
Gareth Eagar
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Gareth Eagar

Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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Meeting the needs of data scientists and ML models

Over the past decade, the field of ML has significantly expanded, and the majority of larger organizations now have data science teams that use ML techniques to help drive the objectives of the organization.

Data scientists use advanced mathematical concepts to develop ML models that can be used in various ways, including the following:

  1. Identifying non-obvious patterns in data (based on the results of a blood test, what is the likelihood that this patient has a specific type of cancer?)
  2. Predicting future outcomes based on historical data (is this consumer, with these specific attributes, likely to default on their debt?)
  3. Extracting metadata from unstructured data (in this image of a person, are they smiling? Are they wearing sunglasses? Do they have a beard?)

Many types of ML approaches require large amounts of raw data to train the machine learning model (teaching the model about patterns in data...

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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614426

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Gareth Eagar

Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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