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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

Reviewing the standard Pachyderm workflow

As you probably noticed when you were creating a pipeline, there is a certain workflow that you will need to follow when working with Pachyderm. Depending on your automation tools, your team processes, and the software that you use, it might differ, but in general, it boils down to the following common steps:

  1. Add your data to Pachyderm.
  2. Create a pipeline or pipelines.
  3. Add more data.
  4. Modify the parameters.
  5. Modify your pipeline or pipelines.
  6. Output the result to an output repository.
  7. Repeat Steps 3–6 as many times as needed or continuously.
  8. Serve your model or package your library and make it available for use.

The following diagram demonstrates this process:

Figure 7.1 – Pachyderm workflow

Depending on whether you keep your code in a Docker image, in the pipeline itself, or you use a build pipeline with your Python code, you need to rebuild your Docker image every...