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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

Choosing the correct chart type

Representing data with the correct chart type is what makes the difference between a standard graph and an excellent one. You may have the best data in the world, context-specific and processed to convey an important message, but if you use the wrong graph to represent it, your message will likely not be fully grasped.

In this section, we briefly discuss which chart types to use, based on the specific shape of the data. These are guidelines that you will have to adapt from time to time to your needs.

The section describes the most common graphs and when you should use them. We will review the following chart types:

  • A line chart
  • A bar chart
  • An area chart
  • A pie chart

Let’s start with the first chart, a line chart.

A line chart

A line chart compares data values that are sequentially connected. Usually, you can use a line chart to represent time series, as shown in the following figure:

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