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Building Data Science Solutions with Anaconda

By : Dan Meador
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Book Image

Building Data Science Solutions with Anaconda

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By: Dan Meador

Overview of this book

You might already know that there's a wealth of data science and machine learning resources available on the market, but what you might not know is how much is left out by most of these AI resources. This book not only covers everything you need to know about algorithm families but also ensures that you become an expert in everything, from the critical aspects of avoiding bias in data to model interpretability, which have now become must-have skills. In this book, you'll learn how using Anaconda as the easy button, can give you a complete view of the capabilities of tools such as conda, which includes how to specify new channels to pull in any package you want as well as discovering new open source tools at your disposal. You’ll also get a clear picture of how to evaluate which model to train and identify when they have become unusable due to drift. Finally, you’ll learn about the powerful yet simple techniques that you can use to explain how your model works. By the end of this book, you’ll feel confident using conda and Anaconda Navigator to manage dependencies and gain a thorough understanding of the end-to-end data science workflow.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Data Science Landscape – Open Source to the Rescue
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Part 2: Data Is the New Oil, Models Are the New Refineries
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Part 3: Practical Examples and Applications

Learning how dependency resolution works

Dependencies are part of the fundamental pieces of software development and data science. Back in Chapter 1, Understanding the AI/ML Landscape, we gave an overview of dependencies by using a cooking example with things that you need to make a certain dish, and how those requirements can conflict with one another, resulting in a tricky situation. We could provide another food analogy, but let's give something that's a little more real to understand – why the alternative of not using anyone else's packages and libraries can be a challenge.

Let's take a look and see whether we can get by without any dependencies for building a simple web application where users can create accounts and pick their favorite movies so you can recommend ones they might like:

  1. First, you will need to get some form of authentication for your project. You will need to brush up on your security skills, such as seeding, hashing functions...