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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

Technical requirements

If you are on macOS, verify that you have an up-to-date version of macOS. If you are using Linux, you must be on 64-bit versions of recent distributions of CentOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu. If you are on Windows, run all the commands described in this section from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You should have the following tools installed from the previous chapters:

  • Homebrew (macOS only)
  • The Kubernetes Command-Line Interface (CLI) – kubectl
  • Helm
  • Pachyderm CLI – pachctl
  • WSL (Windows only)

We will need to install the following tools:

  • The Amazon Web Services (AWS) CLI – aws
  • The Amazon Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) authenticator for Kubernetes
  • The EKS command-line tool – eksctl
  • The Google Cloud SDK – gcloud
  • The Azure CLI – az
  • A JSON processor – jq

We will go into the specifics regarding the installation and configuration of these tools as we...