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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Pachyderm and Reproducible Data Science
5
Section 2:Getting Started with Pachyderm
12
Section 3:Pachyderm Clients and Tools

Reviewing Pachyderm architecture

This section walks you through the distributed Pachyderm architecture and the internals of the Pachyderm solution. But before we dive into the nitty-gritty details of Pachyderm infrastructure, let's answer the question that a lot of you might have on your mind after reading the introduction—why can't I use Git or any other version control system? We'll address this question with Git in mind as it is the most popular and widely used software version control system, but all of the arguments apply to any other similar version control system for source code. After we review how Pachyderm is different and similar to Git, we will review the Pachyderm internals, Kubernetes, and container runtimes.

Why can't I use Git for my data pipelines?

So, if Pachyderm is similar to Git, why can't I store everything in Git rather than have multiple tools that I have to learn and support?, you might ask.

While Git is a great open...