Skip to Content
Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory
book

Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

by Christian Cote, Michelle Gutzait, Giuseppe Ciaburro
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
284 pages
5h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

Making predictions with regression algorithms

Since the dawn of time, human beings have tried to foresee the future. How many rainy days will there be in the next week? What will be the harvest for next season? These types of problems are regression problems. The goal is to predict the value of a continuous response variable. This is also a supervised learning task.

Regression analysis is a statistical process of studying the relationship between a set of independent variables (explanatory variables) and the dependent variable (response variable). Through this technique, it is possible to understand how the value of the response variable changes when the explanatory variable is varied.

Consider a group of bikes about which some information ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Data Modeling for Azure Data Services

Data Modeling for Azure Data Services

Peter ter Braake

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781789137620