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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

Learning about version control primitives

As we saw in a previous section, Pachyderm bears similarities to the code version control software called Git. If you have participated in developing an open source project before, you are likely familiar with Git through the use of a hosted Git version, such as GitHub, GitLab, or Gerrit.

Like with Git, you store your data in repositories, upload your data with a commit, and can have multiple branches in your repositories. Pachyderm stores the history of your commits and allows you to track changes or the history of your data back to its origins.

Pachyderm version control primitives enable you to go back in time and run your pipeline against previous versions of your changes. This can be very powerful in tracking bias and mistakes that crawl into your pipeline changes.

Let's look at these concepts in more detail.

Repository

A Pachyderm repository is a filesystem in which you store your data and where you store versions...