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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By : Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.
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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By: Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.

Overview of this book

Social networking sites see an average of 350 million uploads daily - a quantity impossible for humans to scan and analyze. Only AI can do this job at the required speed, and to leverage an AI application at its full potential, you need an efficient and scalable data storage pipeline. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop will teach you how to build and manage one. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop begins taking you through some real-world applications of AI. You’ll explore the layers of a data lake and get to grips with security, scalability, and maintainability. With the help of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to define the requirements for AI applications in your organization. This AI book will show you how to select a database for your system and run common queries on databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra. You’ll also design your own AI trading system to get a feel of the pipeline-based architecture. As you learn to implement a deep Q-learning algorithm to play the CartPole game, you’ll gain hands-on experience with PyTorch. Finally, you’ll explore ways to run machine learning models in production as part of an AI application. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to build and deploy your own AI software at scale, using various tools, API frameworks, and serialization methods.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
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4. The Ethics of AI Data Storage

Apache Spark and Databricks

The most popular integrated platform for learning and using Apache Spark is provided by Databricks. Databricks takes Apache Spark to the next level. It offers five times the performance (compared to Vanilla Apache Spark on the cloud) and integrated Jupyter notebooks in a secure cloud-enabled platform. The core team that developed Apache Spark while at Berkeley is part of Databricks. We will get into the details of the core operations of Spark, namely, transformations and actions. We will use the integrated Jupyter notebooks in Databricks to write the code for this. Databricks enables us to spin Spark clusters on the cloud and connect to it with integrated Jupyter notebooks. So, in the next section, let's set up the Databricks environment and learn to create and use a Jupyter notebook.

Exercise 7.01: Creating Your Databricks Notebook

The best way to learn Spark is by doing exercises and tutorials. You could either set up Spark locally or, even...