Heli Helskyaho - Machine Learning for Oracle Database Professionals: Deploying Model-Driven Applications and Automation Pipelines

I want to thank my family, Marko, Patrik, and Matias, for their continuous support during this project, and my parents for their encouragement throughout my life. You gave me the confidence to write this book.

Thank you, Jean and Kai, for writing this book with me! It was a great pleasure to work with you. You are great friends and extremely talented.

Special thank you to Charlie Berger and Adrian Png for the extremely valuable comments, guidance, and support during this project. We could not have been able to write this book without your help!

And thank you, Jonathan, Jill, and the rest of the Apress team!

Heli Helskyaho

I want to thank my parents, my grandfather, and my middle school math teacher for encouraging me to pursue an engineering career. Special thank you to my husband Kai, and to my graduate advisors Dr. Steve Robbins and Dr. Kay Robbins of UTSA for introducing me to the software industry in 1995.

Thank you Heli and Kai for working with me on this amazing project. I greatly admire your dedication and passion for the Oracle Machine Learning community.

Id like to extend a special thanks to our reviewer Adrian Png and Apress editors Jonathan Gennick and Jill Balzano. I appreciate your extremely valuable review comments. Your guidance and support made this project possible for a novice writer like myself. I learned so much. Thank you!

Jean Yu

I dedicate this book to the readers of this book. I want to thank all the people who have assisted with this book, especially the technical reviewer, Andrew Peng, Apress editors Jonathan Gennick and Jill Balzano, and the rest of the Apress team, for their great efforts and patience in transforming the technical content into a finished book.

I thank Heli and Jean for their great talents, dedication, and amazing teamwork. It has been my great honor to be part of this great team with them.

I also thank my wife, Jean, and my daughter, Jessica, for their continuous support during this project. I want to dedicate this book to my parents, who encouraged me to pursue my education and career in computer technology.

I thank my mentor, Dell Senior Fellow Jimmy Pike, and the Dell Technical Leadership Community, who have inspired me to pursue technical excellence and expand my expertise in AI and machine learning. I also want to thank my manager, Ibrahim Fashho, for his great inspiration and longtime support.

Kai Yu