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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

Executing data operations

As you have probably already noticed, to get started working with Pachyderm, you need to put data into it. Then, data is transformed through a number of transformation steps. After that, you can export your data and models to an outside source in a form of libraries, binaries, packages, tables, dashboards, or any other format for further use. In this section, we will review the ways to upload and download data to and from Pachyderm and all the native Pachyderm modifications that can be applied during this process.

Let's begin with uploading data to Pachyderm.

Uploading data to Pachyderm

You can divide data sources that ingest data into Pachyderm into the following categories:

  • From a local filesystem
  • From a URL
  • A remote object or block storage
  • A streaming or messaging platform

In this section, you will likely mostly use your local filesystem to upload data to Pachyderm repositories. This can be done with a simple Pachyderm...