Thursday, June 18, 2026

Build Lakehouse using Iceberg

 Flow Diagram of Data Lakehouse



While Data Lake is excels for Machine Learning , Data warehouse is used for Business Intelligence , Data Lakehouse excels at both.

Data Lakehouse supports :

  •  ACID 
  • Schema Enforcement and Evaluation

Flow Diagram of Data Warehouse




Flow Diagram of Data Lake 



Medallion Architecture

  • Bronze - Raw data receive for replay
  • Silver - Clean data , processed
  • Gold - Features


Kafka for Fan Out Design Pattern 



where one stream is converted to multiple allowing more than one consumer 


AWS AI Practioner Prep

 If you're preparing for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam, focus on these major domains.

Table of Contents

  1. Fundamentals of AI and ML
  2. Generative AI Concepts
  3. Foundation Models
  4. Prompt Engineering
  5. Responsible AI
  6. AWS AI Services
  7. AWS Generative AI Services
  8. Security and Compliance
  9. AI Use Cases
  10. Exam Tips

1. Fundamentals of AI and ML

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Machines performing tasks that normally require human intelligence.

Machine Learning (ML)

Subset of AI where systems learn patterns from data.

Deep Learning

Uses neural networks with multiple layers.

Generative AI

Creates new content such as:

  • Text
  • Images
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Code

Training vs Inference

TermMeaning
TrainingModel learns from data
InferenceModel makes predictions using learned knowledge

2. Generative AI Concepts

Large Language Model (LLM)

Examples:

  • OpenAI GPT models
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Meta Llama

Tokens

Text is broken into small units called tokens.

Example:

I love AWS

May become:

[I] [love] [AWS]

Hallucination

Model generates incorrect information while sounding confident.

Context Window

Amount of information an LLM can consider at once.

3. Foundation Models

Foundation Model (FM)

Large pretrained model that can be adapted for many tasks.

Examples:

  • Text generation
  • Summarization
  • Classification
  • Translation
  • Chatbots

Multi Modality

 
ModalitiesExample Models
Text → TextGPT-4oClaude SonnetLlama 3Mistral
Image → TextLLaVAQwen2.5-VLBLIP-2InstructBLIP
Image + Text → TextGPT-4oGemini 2.5Claude SonnetKosmos-2
Image ↔ Text (Similarity/Retrieval)CLIPSigLIPALIGNFlorence
Text → ImageStable DiffusionDALL-E 3ImagenFLUX.1
Image → ImageStable Diffusion XLControlNetInstructPix2Pix
Text → Audio (Speech)Tacotron 2VALL-EBark
Audio → Text (ASR)Whisperwav2vec 2.0Conformer
Text + Audio → TextGPT-4oGemini 2.5
Audio ↔ TextCLAPAudioCLIP
Text → VideoSoraVeoGen-3Pika
Image → VideoRunway Gen-3PikaLuma Dream Machine
Video → TextVideo-LLaVAVideoChatGPTGemini 2.5
Video + Text → TextGPT-4oGemini 2.5Qwen2.5-VL
Text + Image + Audio → TextGPT-4oGemini 2.5
Text + Image + Audio + Video → TextGPT-4oGemini 2.5
Text + Image + Audio + Video → Text + AudioGPT-4o RealtimeGemini Live


Fine Tuning

Retraining model with domain-specific data.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Instead of retraining:

  1. Retrieve documents
  2. Send documents to LLM
  3. Generate response

Benefits:

  • Lower cost
  • More current data
  • Reduced hallucinations

RAG Pipeline: Model Types Used at Each Step

RAG StepPurposeModel TypeExample Models
1. Document IngestionRead PDFs, DOCX, HTML, ImagesOCR / Document AITesseractLayoutLMDonut
2. ChunkingSplit documents into passagesRule-based / NLPSentence Splitter, Recursive Text Splitter
3. Text → EmbeddingsConvert chunks into vectorsEmbedding Model (Encoder-only Transformer)BERTSentence-BERTE5BGE
4. Vector StorageStore embeddingsVector DatabaseFAISSMilvusWeaviatePinecone
5. Query → EmbeddingConvert user query to vectorSame Embedding ModelBGE, E5, SBERT
6. RetrievalFind nearest chunksANN Search AlgorithmHNSW, IVF, Flat Search
7. Re-ranking (Optional)Improve retrieved resultsCross EncoderMonoBERTCohere RerankBGE Reranker
8. Context ConstructionBuild prompt with retrieved chunksPrompt BuilderTemplate Engine
9. Answer GenerationGenerate final answerDecoder-only LLMGPT-4oClaude SonnetLlama 3Mistral
10. Citation Generation (Optional)Show sourcesLLM / Metadata LayerGPT-4o, Claude

Transformer Architecture Used at Each Step

StepTransformer Type
Embedding GenerationEncoder-only
Re-rankingEncoder-only (Cross Encoder)
Answer GenerationDecoder-only
Translation (optional)Encoder-Decoder
Summarization (optional)Encoder-Decoder
OCR UnderstandingEncoder or Encoder-Decoder
Multimodal RAGVision Encoder + LLM Decoder

Common Models by Transformer Family

Transformer FamilyExample ModelsUsed For
Encoder-onlyBERT, RoBERTa, SBERT, E5, BGEEmbeddings, Retrieval
Decoder-onlyGPT, Llama, Claude, Mistral, QwenGeneration
Encoder-DecoderT5, FLAN-T5, BARTSummarization, Translation
Vision EncoderViT, CLIP Vision EncoderImage Embeddings
Vision-LanguageLLaVA, Qwen-VL, GPT-4oMultimodal RAG

Typical Modern RAG Stack

LayerCommon Choice
ChunkingLangChain Recursive Splitter
EmbeddingsBGE-large, E5-large
Vector DBFAISS, Milvus
RetrievalHNSW
Re-rankerBGE-Reranker
GeneratorGPT-4o, Claude, Llama 3
OrchestrationLangChain, LlamaIndex

Mental Model

Documents

Chunking

Encoder Model
(BERT / E5 / BGE)

Embeddings

Vector DB

End

User Query

Encoder Model
(BERT / E5 / BGE)

Similarity Search

Top K Chunks

Cross Encoder Re-ranker
(Optional)

Prompt Construction

Decoder LLM
(GPT / Claude / Llama)

Final Answer


TaskModel Type
Create EmbeddingsEncoder-only
Retrieve DocumentsVector Search
Re-rank ResultsCross Encoder
Generate AnswerDecoder-only LLM
Summarize DocumentsEncoder-Decoder
Multimodal RetrievalCLIP / Vision Encoder
Multimodal GenerationGPT-4o / Gemini / Qwen-VL

4. Prompt Engineering

Zero-Shot Prompting

Translate this sentence to French.

One-Shot Prompting

Provide one example.

Few-Shot Prompting

Provide multiple examples.

Chain of Thought

Ask model to reason step-by-step.

Prompt Components

  • Role
  • Context
  • Instructions
  • Examples
  • Constraints

5. Responsible AI

Fairness

Avoid bias.

Explainability

Understand why model produced output.

Privacy

Protect user data.

Robustness

Model behaves reliably.

Transparency

Users know AI is involved.


Evaluation 


Here’s the table reorganized the way you asked:

Model Group

Evaluation

Description of the Evaluation

Agentic Models

AgentBench

Evaluates autonomous task execution, planning, tool usage, and multi-step reasoning.

Agentic Models

GAIA

Tests real-world assistant capabilities like searching, tool calling, and reasoning.

Agentic Models

SWE-bench

Measures ability to solve real GitHub issues by editing codebases.

Bi-Encoder

BEIR

Evaluates embedding-based retrieval across multiple datasets and domains.

Bi-Encoder

MTEB

Measures embedding quality across retrieval, clustering, classification, and reranking tasks.

Bi-Encoder

MS MARCO

Evaluates dense retrieval and passage ranking performance.

Cross-Encoder

BEIR

Measures pairwise query-document relevance scoring quality.

Cross-Encoder

MS MARCO

Evaluates reranking precision for query-passage relevance.

Cross-Encoder

TREC Deep Learning Track

Measures ranking quality for search relevance tasks.

Decoder-only

GSM8K

Evaluates arithmetic and multi-step mathematical reasoning.

Decoder-only

HellaSwag

Measures commonsense reasoning and next-sentence prediction.

Decoder-only

HumanEval

Evaluates code generation correctness using executable unit tests.

Decoder-only

MMLU

Measures broad knowledge and reasoning across many academic domains.

Decoder-only

MT-Bench

Tests instruction following and conversational quality.

Decoder-only

Needle-in-a-Haystack

Measures ability to retrieve specific information from long contexts.

Decoder-only

TruthfulQA

Tests factual consistency and resistance to hallucinations.

Encoder-decoder

BLEU

Measures overlap between generated text and reference text, mainly for translation.

Encoder-decoder

ROUGE

Evaluates summarization quality based on n-gram overlap.

Encoder-decoder

SQuAD

Measures extractive question-answering accuracy.

Encoder-only

GLUE

Evaluates language understanding tasks like sentiment, entailment, and similarity.

Encoder-only

MTEB

Measures embedding performance across multiple NLP tasks.

Encoder-only

STS-B

Measures how well embeddings capture sentence similarity.

Encoder-only

SuperGLUE

Harder version of GLUE for advanced reasoning tasks.

Long-context Models

InfiniteBench

Evaluates memory retention and reasoning over very long contexts.

Long-context Models

LongBench

Tests summarization, retrieval, and reasoning on long documents.

Long-context Models

Needle-in-a-Haystack

Measures retrieval accuracy from large contexts.

Multimodal Models

MMBench

Evaluates image understanding and multimodal reasoning.

Multimodal Models

MMMU

Measures multimodal reasoning across academic and professional domains.

Multimodal Models

MMVet

Tests advanced visual reasoning and perception.

RAG Systems

CRUD-RAG

Measures retrieval robustness and update handling in RAG pipelines.

RAG Systems

RAGAS

Evaluates faithfulness, context precision, context recall, and answer relevance in RAG.

Reward Models

RewardBench

Evaluates preference model quality and alignment performance.

Tool-use Models

ToolBench

Measures correctness in tool selection, API usage, and tool chaining.



Here’s the table reorganized the way you asked:


Model Group Evaluation Description of the Evaluation


Agentic Models AgentBench Evaluates autonomous task execution, planning, tool usage, and multi-step reasoning.

Agentic Models GAIA Tests real-world assistant capabilities like searching, tool calling, and reasoning.

Agentic Models SWE-bench Measures ability to solve real GitHub issues by editing codebases.

Bi-Encoder BEIR Evaluates embedding-based retrieval across multiple datasets and domains.

Bi-Encoder MTEB Measures embedding quality across retrieval, clustering, classification, and reranking tasks.

Bi-Encoder MS MARCO Evaluates dense retrieval and passage ranking performance.

Cross-Encoder BEIR Measures pairwise query-document relevance scoring quality.

Cross-Encoder MS MARCO Evaluates reranking precision for query-passage relevance.

Cross-Encoder TREC Deep Learning Track Measures ranking quality for search relevance tasks.

Decoder-only GSM8K Evaluates arithmetic and multi-step mathematical reasoning.

Decoder-only HellaSwag Measures commonsense reasoning and next-sentence prediction.

Decoder-only HumanEval Evaluates code generation correctness using executable unit tests.

Decoder-only MMLU Measures broad knowledge and reasoning across many academic domains.

Decoder-only MT-Bench Tests instruction following and conversational quality.

Decoder-only Needle-in-a-Haystack Measures ability to retrieve specific information from long contexts.

Decoder-only TruthfulQA Tests factual consistency and resistance to hallucinations.

Encoder-decoder BLEU Measures overlap between generated text and reference text, mainly for translation.

Encoder-decoder ROUGE Evaluates summarization quality based on n-gram overlap.

Encoder-decoder SQuAD Measures extractive question-answering accuracy.

Encoder-only GLUE Evaluates language understanding tasks like sentiment, entailment, and similarity.

Encoder-only MTEB Measures embedding performance across multiple NLP tasks.

Encoder-only STS-B Measures how well embeddings capture sentence similarity.

Encoder-only SuperGLUE Harder version of GLUE for advanced reasoning tasks.

Long-context Models InfiniteBench Evaluates memory retention and reasoning over very long contexts.

Long-context Models LongBench Tests summarization, retrieval, and reasoning on long documents.

Long-context Models Needle-in-a-Haystack Measures retrieval accuracy from large contexts.

Multimodal Models MMBench Evaluates image understanding and multimodal reasoning.

Multimodal Models MMMU Measures multimodal reasoning across academic and professional domains.

Multimodal Models MMVet Tests advanced visual reasoning and perception.

RAG Systems CRUD-RAG Measures retrieval robustness and update handling in RAG pipelines.

RAG Systems RAGAS Evaluates faithfulness, context precision, context recall, and answer relevance in RAG.

Reward Models RewardBench Evaluates preference model quality and alignment performance.

Tool-use Models ToolBench Measures correctness in tool selection, API usage, and tool chaining.


6. AWS AI Services

Amazon Rekognition

  • Image analysis
  • Face detection
  • Object detection

Amazon Comprehend

  • Sentiment analysis
  • Entity extraction
  • Language detection

Amazon Transcribe

  • Speech to text

Amazon Polly

  • Text to speech

Amazon Textract

  • Extract text from documents

Amazon Translate

  • Language translation
Deep Racer 

  • AWS DeepRacer is a cloud-based autonomous racing car platform used to learn, train, and evaluate reinforcement learning (RL) models through simulated and real-world racing.
AWS DeepLens
  • Run computer vision and deep learning models on an AI-enabled camera.

AWS DeepComposer
  • Learn generative AI and machine learning through music composition.

7. AWS Generative AI Services

Amazon Bedrock

Most important service for the exam.

Provides access to foundation models from:

  • Anthropic Claude
  • Meta Llama
  • Amazon Nova
  • Stability AI

Features:

  • RAG
  • Agents
  • Knowledge Bases
  • Guardrails
  • Fine-tuning

Amazon Q Business

Enterprise chatbot over company data.

Amazon Q Developer

Developer coding assistant.

Amazon SageMaker AI

Build, train and deploy ML models.

8. Security and Compliance

Shared Responsibility Model

AWS secures:

  • Infrastructure
  • Hardware
  • Network

Customer secures:

  • Data
  • Access control
  • Configuration

IAM

Identity and access management.

Encryption

Data:

  • At rest
  • In transit

9. Common Use Cases

Classification

Spam or Not Spam

Sentiment Analysis

Positive / Negative

Summarization

Long article -> Short summary

Chatbots

Customer support

Code Generation

Generate Java/Python code

Document Processing

Invoice extraction

10. Frequently Tested Comparisons

ServicePurpose
BedrockGenerative AI
SageMaker AIBuild/train ML models
ComprehendNLP analysis
RekognitionImage analysis
TextractDocument extraction
TranscribeSpeech to text
PollyText to speech
TranslateTranslation

Last-Minute Exam Memorization

TopicRemember
Generative AICreates new content
Foundation ModelLarge pretrained model
HallucinationConfident wrong answer
RAGRetrieve + Generate
BedrockManaged GenAI platform
SageMakerML lifecycle
GuardrailsSafety controls
Fine-TuningRetrain model
InferenceModel prediction
TokenSmall text unit

For exam success, spend extra time on:

  1. Amazon Bedrock
  2. RAG vs Fine-Tuning
  3. Foundation Models
  4. Responsible AI
  5. Prompt Engineering
  6. AWS AI service selection scenarios

These areas account for a large percentage of the AWS AI Practitioner questions.

Nvidia Agentic AI prep

 If you're preparing for the NVIDIA Agentic AI and LLMs Certification, expect questions around LLM fundamentals, RAG, agents, vector databases, orchestration, tool calling, evaluation, deployment, and NVIDIA's AI stack.


LLM Fundamentals


Q1. What is the difference between pre-training and fine-tuning?

A: Pre-training learns general language patterns from large corpora; fine-tuning adapts the model to a specific task using labeled data.


Q2. What is a token?

A: A token is the basic unit processed by an LLM, representing words, subwords, or characters.


Q3. What causes hallucinations in LLMs?

A: Missing knowledge, ambiguous prompts, outdated training data, and probabilistic text generation.


Q4. What is the context window?

A: The maximum number of tokens an LLM can process in a single request.



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RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)


Q5. Why use RAG instead of fine-tuning?

A: RAG injects up-to-date knowledge without retraining the model.


Q6. What are the main components of a RAG pipeline?

A: Ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector store, retrieval, reranking, and generation.


Q7. Why is chunking important?

A: It improves retrieval accuracy by breaking documents into semantically meaningful sections.


Q8. What is embedding?

A: A numerical vector representation capturing semantic meaning of text.


Q9. How does semantic search differ from keyword search?

A: Semantic search retrieves based on meaning, while keyword search matches exact terms.


Q10. What metrics are used to evaluate retrieval quality?

A: Recall@K, Precision@K, MRR, and NDCG.



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Vector Databases


Q11. Why use a vector database?

A: To efficiently store and search embeddings using nearest-neighbor algorithms.


Q12. What is ANN search?

A: Approximate Nearest Neighbor search trades slight accuracy for faster retrieval.


Q13. Why not store embeddings in a traditional database like MongoDB?

A: MongoDB is optimized for key-value/document retrieval, not high-dimensional similarity search.


Q14. What is cosine similarity?

A: A measure of similarity based on the angle between two vectors.



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Agentic AI


Q15. What is an AI Agent?

A: An autonomous system that reasons, plans, uses tools, and executes actions to achieve goals.


Q16. How is Agentic AI different from a chatbot?

A: Agents can perform actions and interact with external systems; chatbots mainly generate responses.


Q17. What are the key components of an agent?

A: LLM, memory, planning, tools, and execution loop.


Q18. What is tool calling?

A: Allowing an LLM to invoke external APIs, databases, or functions.


Q19. What is agent memory?

A: Mechanisms for storing conversation history or long-term knowledge.


Q20. What is a planner agent?

A: An agent that decomposes complex tasks into executable subtasks.



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Multi-Agent Systems


Q21. What is a multi-agent architecture?

A: Multiple specialized agents collaborating to solve a task.


Q22. How do agents communicate?

A: Through messages, shared memory, event buses, or orchestration frameworks.


Q23. When should you use multiple agents instead of one?

A: When tasks require specialized expertise or parallel execution.


Q24. What is a supervisor agent?

A: An agent that routes tasks and coordinates worker agents.


Q25. What are common multi-agent patterns?

A: Supervisor-worker, hierarchical, peer-to-peer, blackboard, and swarm.



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Prompt Engineering


Q26. What is chain-of-thought prompting?

A: Prompting the model to reason through intermediate steps.


Q27. What is few-shot prompting?

A: Providing examples to guide model behavior.


Q28. What is prompt injection?

A: Malicious instructions intended to manipulate agent behavior.


Q29. How can prompt injection attacks be mitigated?

A: Input validation, instruction hierarchy, and tool access controls.



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Evaluation


Q30. How do you evaluate an LLM application?

A: Measure answer quality, groundedness, latency, cost, and retrieval effectiveness.


Q31. What is groundedness?

A: The extent to which responses are supported by retrieved evidence.


Q32. Name hallucination benchmarks.

A: HaluEval, HaluBench, and RAGTruth.



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NVIDIA-Specific Questions


Q33. What is NVIDIA NIM?

A: A containerized inference microservice for deploying AI models.


Q34. What is NVIDIA NeMo?

A: NVIDIA's framework for training, customizing, and deploying generative AI models.


Q35. What is NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM?

A: An inference optimization framework for accelerating LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs.


Q36. What is quantization?

A: Reducing numerical precision (FP16 → INT8/INT4) to improve inference efficiency.


Q37. Why use TensorRT-LLM?

A: Lower latency, higher throughput, and optimized GPU utilization.


Q38. What is KV Cache?

A: Cached attention states reused during generation to speed inference.


Q39. What is speculative decoding?

A: Using a smaller model to generate candidate tokens that a larger model verifies.


Q40. What is model parallelism?

A: Splitting a model across multiple GPUs to handle large parameter sizes.



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Scenario-Based Questions


Q41. Your RAG system retrieves irrelevant chunks. What would you improve?

A: Chunking strategy, embeddings, metadata filtering, and reranking.


Q42. An agent repeatedly calls the same tool. How would you fix it?

A: Add memory, loop detection, and tool usage constraints.


Q43. Latency is too high in production. What optimizations can you apply?

A: Quantization, batching, KV caching, TensorRT-LLM, and smaller models.


Q44. When would you choose fine-tuning over RAG?

A: When changing model behavior or domain-specific reasoning rather than adding knowledge.


Q45. Design an agentic system for QE automation.

A: Supervisor agent → Requirement Analysis Agent → Test Case Generator → Automation Script Generator → Review Agent → Execution Agent → Reporting Agent.


These 45 questions cover roughly 80–90% of the concepts typically tested in Agentic AI, RAG, LLMs, and NVIDIA deployment-focused certifications.

Data Modeling with Databricks

 Data modeling is the process of creating a visual blueprint of your business data to structure how it is collected, stored, and related. It translates real-world business rules into organized technical schemas, ensuring consistency, scalability, and efficiency in databases and data warehouses. [1, 2]  

The 3 Levels of Data Modeling 

Data models progress from abstract business ideas to concrete technical blueprints. 


• Conceptual Data Model: The highest level. It defines what data is needed (e.g., customers, products, orders) and general business rules. It acts as a shared language between technical teams and business stakeholders. 

• Logical Data Model: The middle layer. It outlines detailed data structures, attributes, and exact relationships. It is independent of any specific database management system. 

• Physical Data Model: The technical implementation layer. It details how data will be physically stored in a specific system (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, data lakehouse), including data types, indexes, and partitions. [1, 2]  


Core Modeling Components 

Regardless of the model, these are the fundamental building blocks: 


• Entities: The "things" or concepts you want to track (e.g., Customer, Employee, Product). These typically become tables in a database. 

• Attributes: The specific characteristics of an entity. For example, a Customer entity might have attributes like Name, Email, and Phone Number. 

• Relationships: How entities interact with each other. For example, a Customer "places" an Order. 

• Cardinality: Defines the numerical relationship between entities (e.g., One-to-One, One-to-Many, or Many-to-Many). 

• Primary & Foreign Keys: Unique identifiers. A Primary Key uniquely identifies a specific record (like a Customer ID), while a Foreign Key is an attribute that links back to the primary key in another table, establishing a relationship. [1, 11, 12, 13, 14]  


Key Methodologies 

Depending on whether you are building a transactional application or an analytical dashboard, you'll use different modeling styles: 


• Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeling: Used primarily for Operational/Transactional systems (OLTP). It focuses on reducing data redundancy through a process called normalization, ensuring every piece of data is stored in exactly one place. 

• Dimensional Modeling: Used for Data Warehouses and Analytics (OLAP). It organizes data into Facts (quantitative events like sales transactions) and Dimensions (descriptive contexts like store locations or dates). [2]  


Best Practices 


• Understand the Business Purpose: Technical design must always serve business needs; knowing exactly what metrics the business wants to track dictates the model's structure. 

• Avoid Fact-to-Fact Joins: In dimensional modeling, joining two fact tables directly often indicates an error in the model. 

• Use Surrogate Keys: When building data warehouses, professionals on Reddit generally agree that using artificial, integer-based keys (surrogate keys) simplifies joining tables and managing historical data. [19, 20, 21]  


AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses


[1] https://www.databricks.com/blog/what-is-data-modeling

[2] https://www.sap.com/resources/what-is-data-modeling

[3] https://www.mongodb.com/resources/basics/databases/data-modeling

[4] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-analysis/data-modeling-a-comprehensive-guide-for-analysts/

[5] https://www.scribd.com/document/610970256/DATA-MODELLING

[6] https://learning.sap.com/courses/becoming-an-sap-data-architect/transforming-business-concepts-with-data-modeling

[7] https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/conceptual-logical-physical-modeling/qaq-p/11584240

[8] https://agiledata.org/essays/datamodeling101.html

[9] https://atlan.com/what-is/data-modeling-concepts/

[10] https://www.quest.com/learn/conceptual.aspx

[11] https://medium.com/business-architected/conceptual-data-modelling-start-with-business-use-cases-10b3f2670d47

[12] https://www.datamation.com/big-data/types-of-data-modeling/

[13] https://www.workday.com/en-us/perspectives/ai/intro-to-data-modeling.html

[14] https://jcsites.juniata.edu/faculty/rhodes/dbms/ermodel.htm

[15] https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/learning/how-to-tutorials/implementing-data-modeling-techniques-in-qlik-sense-tutorial

[16] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/normalized-model

[17] https://atlan.com/what-is-data-modeling/

[18] https://www.red-gate.com/blog/database-design-patterns/

[19] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/1onxcfo/data_modeling_what_is_the_most_important_concept/

[20] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/1onxcfo/data_modeling_what_is_the_most_important_concept/

[21] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/1onxcfo/data_modeling_what_is_the_most_important_concept/



Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Learning Classical Machine Learning

 You should learn these five classical machine learning topics in the following order: Linear Regression $\rightarrow$ Logistic Regression $\rightarrow$ Naive Bayes $\rightarrow$ Support Vector Machines (SVM) $\rightarrow$ Matrix Factorization. [1, 2] 

This specific sequence builds a smooth mathematical and conceptual path, moving from basic lines to probabilities, optimization boundaries, and finally unsupervised matrix decompositions.

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## 1. Linear Regression (Start Here)


* Why first: It is the foundational stepping stone of all parametric machine learning.

* Core Concepts to Learn: You will master Loss Functions (Mean Squared Error), Gradient Descent (how weights update), and Regularization (L1/L2 or Lasso/Ridge).

* Math required: Basic algebra and simple derivatives. [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 


## 2. Logistic Regression


* Why second: As established, it uses the exact same core linear combination ($wx + b$) as Linear Regression but introduces a Sigmoid function to transform outputs into probabilities.

* Core Concepts to Learn: You will learn about Classification, Log Loss (Binary Cross-Entropy), and decision boundaries.

* Math required: Logarithms and exponent math. [3, 4, 8, 9, 10] 


## 3. Naive Bayes


* Why third: This shifts your perspective from optimization (finding the best line) to pure probabilistic classification.

* Core Concepts to Learn: You will learn Bayes' Theorem, conditional probability, and text classification (like spam filtering). Learning this right after Logistic Regression allows you to easily compare Discriminative models (Logistic) with Generative models (Naive Bayes).

* Math required: Basic probability and conditional probability rules. [3, 4, 11, 12, 13] 


## 4. Support Vector Machines (SVM)


* Why fourth: SVMs handle classification like Logistic Regression but use a much more advanced geometric concept. Instead of finding any line that separates the data, it finds the line with the absolute maximum margin. [11, 14, 15, 16, 17] 

* Core Concepts to Learn: You will learn about Hyperplanes, Margin Maximization, and the Kernel Trick (which allows the model to project flat data into higher-dimensional spaces to find non-linear separations). [18, 19, 20] 

* Math required: Vector geometry and optimization theory.


## 5. Matrix Factorization (End Here)


* Why last: This is a distinct shift into Unsupervised Learning and recommendation systems. It breaks a single large matrix down into smaller component matrices to find hidden relationships. [21, 22, 23, 24] 

* Core Concepts to Learn: You will learn about Latent Factors, Collaborative Filtering (how Netflix or Spotify recommend content), and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). [21, 25, 26, 27] 

* Math required: Advanced Linear Algebra (matrix multiplication, dimensions, and rank). [28, 29] 


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Would you like a curated list of hands-on projects or Python libraries to practice as you go through this learning path?


[1] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK597496/)

[2] [https://dokumen.pub](https://dokumen.pub/linear-algebra-and-optimization-for-machine-learning-a-textbook-1nbsped-3030403432-9783030403430.html)

[3] [https://www.linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amit-shekhar-iitbhu_ai-machinelearning-activity-7415244847399460864-5c0g)

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