Acknowledgments

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people in the Azure ML team at Microsoft who saw us through this book; to all those who provided support, read, offered comments, and assisted in the editing, and proofreading. I wish to thank my coauthors, Val and Wee-Hyong, for their drive and perseverance, which was key to completing this book, and to our publisher Apress, especially Melissa Maldonado and James T. DeWolf, for making this all possible. Above all I want to thank my wife, Terre, and my daughters Amelie and Jolie, who supported and encouraged me in spite of all the time it took me away from them.

—Roger Barga

I would like to thank my co-authors, Roger and Wee-Hyong, for their deep collaboration on this project. I am grateful to all our reviewers and editors whose input was critical to the success of the book. Special thanks to my wife, Veronica, and loving kids, Engu, Chembe, and Nayah, for their support and encouragement through two editions of this book.

—Valentine Fontama

I would like to thank my coauthors, Roger and Val, for the great camaraderie on this journey to deliver the second edition of this book. I deeply appreciate the reviews by the team of data scientists from the machine learning team, and the feedback from readers all over the world after we shipped the first edition. This feedback helped us to improve this book tremendously. I’d also like to thank the Apress team for working with us to shape the second edition. Special thanks to my family, Juliet, Nathaniel, Siak-Eng, and Hwee-Tiang, for their love, support, and patience.

—Wee-Hyong Tok