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This book wouldn’t have been possible without great contributions from these folks–thank you!
We are thankful to our coworkers at Microsoft (Azure AI product, marketing, and many other teams) for working together to deliver the best enterprise-ready Azure Machine Learning service.
Nicolo Fusi, for sharing details on research that lead to the creation of Automated ML (Chapter 2).
Sharon Gillett, for text inputs to Automated ML introduction (Chapter 2).
Vanessa Milan, for images for Automated ML introduction (Chapter 2).
Akchara Mukunthu, for example scenarios for Machine Learning task detection (Table 2-1 in Chapter 2).
Krishna Anumalasetty and Thomas Abraham, for technical review of the book.
Jen Stirrup, for feedback on the book.
The amazing O’Reilly team (Nicole Tache, Deborah Baker, Bob Russell, Jonathan Hassell, Ben Lorica, and many more), for working with us from concept to production and giving us the opportunity to write and share the book with the community.
Members of the Azure Machine Learning and Azure CAT team, for the supportive environment that enabled the authors to write the book during their off hours, and many weekends and holidays.