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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 3: Pachyderm Pipeline Specification

A Machine Learning (ML) pipeline is an automated workflow that enables you to execute the same code continuously against different combinations of data and parameters. A pipeline ensures that every cycle is automated and goes through the same sequence of steps. Like in many other technologies, in Pachyderm, an ML pipeline is defined by a single configuration file called the pipeline specification, or the pipeline spec.

The Pachyderm pipeline specification is the most important configuration in Pachyderm as it defines what your pipeline does, how often it runs, how the work is spread across Pachyderm workers, and where to output the result.

This chapter is intended as a pipeline specification reference and will walk you through all the parameters you can specify for your pipeline. To do this, we will cover the following topics:

  • Pipeline specification overview
  • Understanding inputs
  • Exploring informational parameters
  • ...