I appreciate how convenient it is to have statistical analysis tools available directly in BQ SQL, but are linear and logistic regression really considered "machine learning"?
Actually most of online ads ctr prediction machine learning systems are still logistic regression based until very recently. It's simple but very effective.
Just because it's not a neural net doesn't make it not ML. Also, can echo the other folks here: linear models and basic logistic regression are still competitive.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm suggesting that it might be time to have the counter conversation that just because it has numerical statistical analysis does not make it ML. I've been around the field for a couple of decades and understand linear regression is covered in the first pages of chapter one. If that is the standard, then Excel can claim to have had machine learning capabilities for years.
