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Reproducible Data Science with Pachyderm

By : Svetlana Karslioglu
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Reproducible Data Science with Pachyderm

By: Svetlana Karslioglu

Overview of this book

Pachyderm is an open source project that enables data scientists to run reproducible data pipelines and scale them to an enterprise level. This book will teach you how to implement Pachyderm to create collaborative data science workflows and reproduce your ML experiments at scale. You’ll begin your journey by exploring the importance of data reproducibility and comparing different data science platforms. Next, you’ll explore how Pachyderm fits into the picture and its significance, followed by learning how to install Pachyderm locally on your computer or a cloud platform of your choice. You’ll then discover the architectural components and Pachyderm's main pipeline principles and concepts. The book demonstrates how to use Pachyderm components to create your first data pipeline and advances to cover common operations involving data, such as uploading data to and from Pachyderm to create more complex pipelines. Based on what you've learned, you'll develop an end-to-end ML workflow, before trying out the hyperparameter tuning technique and the different supported Pachyderm language clients. Finally, you’ll learn how to use a SaaS version of Pachyderm with Pachyderm Notebooks. By the end of this book, you will learn all aspects of running your data pipelines in Pachyderm and manage them on a day-to-day basis.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Pachyderm and Reproducible Data Science
5
Section 2:Getting Started with Pachyderm
12
Section 3:Pachyderm Clients and Tools

Chapter 10: Pachyderm Language Clients

In previous chapters, we have learned how to use Pachyderm through the pachctl Command-Line Interface (CLI). We have deployed and managed multiple Pachyderm pipelines by using mostly pachctl. We briefly looked into the Pachyderm User Interface (UI)—or the dashboard—as well, although we did not use it extensively. The Pachyderm CLI enables you to perform all Pachyderm management operations and, in general, provides more functionality than the Pachyderm UI.

However, many users may decide to take Pachyderm even further by using Pachyderm Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) directly without relying on pachctl or the dashboard. Many Pachyderm users develop scripts and call the Pachyderm API directly from these scripts. As of today, Pachyderm provides two official Pachyderm programming language clients, Golang (Go) and Python, to enable advanced users to extend Pachyderm functionality further.

In addition, if you are familiar...