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Practical Data Science with Amazon SageMaker
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are becoming mainstream. In this course, you will spend a day in the life of a data scientist so that you can collaborate efficiently with data...
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$730 USD
Duration
1 day
Course Code
AWS-PDSASM
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Aug 25, 2026 - Aug 25, 2026 (1 day)
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Nov 17, 2026 - Nov 17, 2026 (1 day)
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Overview
Course Description
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are becoming mainstream. In this course, you will spend a day in the life of a data scientist so that you can collaborate efficiently with data scientists and build applications that integrate with ML. You will learn the basic process data scientists use to develop ML solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Amazon SageMaker. You will experience the steps to build, train, and deploy an ML model through instructor-led demonstrations and labs.
Skills Gained
- Discuss the benefits of different types of machine learning for solving business problems
- Describe the typical processes, roles, and responsibilities on a team that builds and deploys ML systems
- Explain how data scientists use AWS tools and ML to solve a common business problem
- Summarize the steps a data scientist takes to prepare data
- Summarize the steps a data scientist takes to train ML models
- Summarize the steps a data scientist takes to evaluate and tune ML models
- Summarize the steps to deploy a model to an endpoint and generate predictions
- Describe the challenges for operationalizing ML models
- Match AWS tools with their ML function
Who Can Benefit
- Development Operations (DevOps) engineers
- Application developers
Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
- AWS Technical Essentials
- Entry-level knowledge of Python programming
- Entry-level knowledge of statistics
Course Details
Course Details
Module 1: Introduction to Machine Learning
- Types of ML
- Job Roles in ML
- Steps in the ML pipeline
Module 2: Introduction to Data Prep and SageMaker
- Training and Test dataset defined
- Introduction to SageMaker
- Demo: SageMaker console
- Demo: Launching a Jupyter notebook
Module 3: Problem formulation and Dataset Preparation
- Business Challenge: Customer churn
- Review Customer churn dataset
Module 4: Data Analysis and Visualization
- Demo: Loading and Visualizing your dataset
- Exercise 1: Relating features to target variables
- Exercise 2: Relationships between attributes
- Demo: Cleaning the data
Module 5: Training and Evaluating a Model
- Types of Algorithms
- XGBoost and SageMaker
- Demo 5: Training the data
- Exercise 3: Finishing the Estimator definition
- Exercise 4: Setting hyperparameters
- Exercise 5: Deploying the model
- Demo: Hyperparameter tuning with SageMaker
- Demo: Evaluating Model Performance
Module 6: Automatically Tune a Model
- Automatic hyperparameter tuning with SageMaker
- Exercises 6-9: Tuning Jobs
Module 7: Deployment / Production Readiness
- Deploying a model to an endpoint
- A/B deployment for testing
- Auto Scaling Scaling
- Demo: Configure and Test Autoscaling
- Demo: Check Hyperparameter tuning job
- Demo: AWS Autoscaling
- Exercise 10-11: Set up AWS Autoscaling
Module 8: Relative Cost of Errors
- Cost of various error types
- Demo: Binary classification cutoff
Module 9: Amazon SageMaker architecture and features
- Accessing Amazon SageMaker notebooks in a VPC
- Amazon SageMaker batch transforms
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
- Amazon SageMaker Neo
Schedule
2 options available
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Aug 25, 2026 - Aug 25, 2026 (1 day)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Nov 17, 2026 - Nov 17, 2026 (1 day)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EST Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EST- Enroll
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Very interactive and in-depth course that really got me ready for the industry
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ExitCertified provided a very organized way to learn and provided materials to follow along.
The class was very vast paced however the teacher was very good at checking in on us while giving us time to complete the labs.
ExitCertified gave a great course on AWS that covered all of the basics in depth with good lab materials.
