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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

Summary

In this chapter, you successfully created your first Pachyderm repository, pipeline, and even extended it with another pipeline step. We used scikit-image, Matplotlib, and NumPy to create contours on images stored in Pachyderm repositories and created histograms for all of these images. This is the first step in understanding how Pachyderm works. In Pachyderm, you'll work with pipelines quite a lot. As you have already noticed, you can put any code in your pipeline. Although most of the examples in this book will use Python, you can use any programming language of your choice.

In the next chapter, we will learn more about Pachyderm functionality, how to ingest data into Pachyderm and export it to outside systems, how to make changes to a pipeline's code, how to tune various parameters, and other important Pachyderm operations.