front matter

 

preface

The goal of automated machine learning (AutoML) is to make machine learning (ML) accessible to everyone, including physicians, civil engineers, material scientists, and small business owners, as well as statisticians and computer scientists. This long-term vision is very similar to that of Microsoft Office—enabling normal users to easily create documents and prepare reports—and cameras in smartphones, facilitating convenient photos taken from anywhere at any time. Although the ML community has devoted a lot of R&D efforts to pursuing this goal, through our collaboration with domain experts and data scientists, we determined that there is a high demand to reveal the magic behind AutoML, including fundamental concepts, algorithms, and tools.

To begin, we would like to share several steps that got us here. (Okay, now you can skip to our main content if you want, but hey, who doesn’t like a good story?)

acknowledgments

about this book

Who should read this book

How this book is organized: A road map

About the code

liveBook discussion forum

Other online resources

about the authors

about the cover illustration