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Predicting with BigQuery ML

Machine learning is an amazingly powerful tool — and a tool that should be available to as many practitioners as possible. BigQuery ML puts the power of machine learning into the hands of SQL users. In this hands-on lab, you’ll use BigQuery ML to create, evaluate, and predict the likelihood that a visitor to a particular site will make a transaction, all based on a public dataset.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Published
Clock icon Jul 01, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create the BigQuery Dataset

    Create the dataset in BigQuery.

  2. Challenge

    Create and Train the ML Model

    Run a SQL function to create and train a logistic regression model.

  3. Challenge

    Evaluate the ML Model

    Evaluate the predicted values against the current data via SQL.

  4. Challenge

    Predict Using the ML Model

    Use BigQuery ML SQL to predict the number of transactions for various countries.

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