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Sumit Mund is a BI/analytics consultant with about a decade of industry experience. He works in his own company, Mund Consulting Ltd., where he is a director and lead consultant. He is an expert in machine learning, predictive analytics, C#, R, and Python programming; he also has an active interest in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience working with most of Microsoft Data Analytics tools and also on Big Data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE in Business Intelligence). Sumit regularly engages on social media platforms through his tweets, blogs, and LinkedIn profile, and often gives talks at industry conferences and local user group meetings.
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Chapter 11. Publishing a Model as a Web Service

So far, you have explored how to build different predictive models as experiments. Now, you might be wondering how that would be of use in real-life scenarios. One use of it is after you build and test your model, you can take a dataset and make a prediction straightaway inside the experiment, but in most of the cases, the result or the predictions of a model need to be used elsewhere and probably by some other people. Consider you have built a recommender model and it recommends items that a buyer might be interested in. So, these predictions require that the e-commerce site display the recommended product items to the prospective buyers. Consider one more scenario, where you have built a model for market segmentation using clustering. The marketing executive of your company should use this model for analysis by integrating the results in their software or simply by using the familiar Microsoft Excel.

Basically, you have to make the predictive...

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Sumit Mund is a BI/analytics consultant with about a decade of industry experience. He works in his own company, Mund Consulting Ltd., where he is a director and lead consultant. He is an expert in machine learning, predictive analytics, C#, R, and Python programming; he also has an active interest in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience working with most of Microsoft Data Analytics tools and also on Big Data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE in Business Intelligence). Sumit regularly engages on social media platforms through his tweets, blogs, and LinkedIn profile, and often gives talks at industry conferences and local user group meetings.
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