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Comet for Data Science

By : Angelica Lo Duca
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Comet for Data Science

By: Angelica Lo Duca

Overview of this book

This book provides concepts and practical use cases which can be used to quickly build, monitor, and optimize data science projects. Using Comet, you will learn how to manage almost every step of the data science process from data collection through to creating, deploying, and monitoring a machine learning model. The book starts by explaining the features of Comet, along with exploratory data analysis and model evaluation in Comet. You’ll see how Comet gives you the freedom to choose from a selection of programming languages, depending on which is best suited to your needs. Next, you will focus on workspaces, projects, experiments, and models. You will also learn how to build a narrative from your data, using the features provided by Comet. Later, you will review the basic concepts behind DevOps and how to extend the GitLab DevOps platform with Comet, further enhancing your ability to deploy your data science projects. Finally, you will cover various use cases of Comet in machine learning, NLP, deep learning, and time series analysis, gaining hands-on experience with some of the most interesting and valuable data science techniques available. By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently build data science pipelines according to bespoke specifications and manage them through Comet.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Getting Started with Comet
5
Section 2 – A Deep Dive into Comet
10
Section 3 – Examples and Use Cases

Introducing basic concepts related to time series analysis

A time series is an ordered sequence of values over time, representing the variation of a certain phenomenon. Examples of time series include the trend of the prices of a certain product, and the trend of rainfall in a given region over time. The following figure shows an example of time series representing the natural gas price from 2000 to 2020:

Figure 11.1 – The natural gas price time series

Data was extracted from the DataHub website and is available at https://datahub.io/core/natural-gas under the public domain and the use of Energy Information Administration (EIA) content license.

Time series analysis, also known as time series forecasting, is the study of the past values of a time series, with the purpose of building a model that predicts its future values.

In this section, you will learn the following basic concepts and aspects related to time series:

  • Loading a time series...