In the Qlik community (we build on their fantastic Qlik Sense platform), there is a lot of anticipation for how Qlik will roll out the AutoML capabilities they acquired with their recent purchase of BigSquid.
But this raises an upstream question: why AutoML?
AutoML is introduced variously as:
the process of automating the time-consuming, iterative tasks of machine learning model development.
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With AutoML…you don’t need to worry about data preparation, feature engineering, algorithm selection, training and tuning, inference, and continuous model monitoring.
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Train high-quality custom machine learning models with minimal effort and machine learning expertise.
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