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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

Installing the required tools

In this section, we will cover how to install the system tools that we will use to prepare our environment before installing Pachyderm.

Installing Homebrew (macOS only)

While Linux distributions have many package management options, there is no default package manager for macOS users. Homebrew (brew) fills this gap and provides a great solution to easily install and manage software from the macOS Terminal and Linux shell as an alternative to apt, yum, or flatpak, which are available in Linux distributions.

Homebrew uses Git to download its updates. In Homebrew, packages are installed based on definitions known as Formulae. Homebrew installs software packages to the Cellar, which is located under the /user/local/Cellar directory. Another term you will hear often is Tap. Tap is a Git repository of Formulae.

In this chapter, we will frequently use brew to install various software packages on macOS. Therefore, you need to install it if you are...