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Cracking the Data Science Interview

By : Leondra R. Gonzalez, Aaren Stubberfield
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Cracking the Data Science Interview

By: Leondra R. Gonzalez, Aaren Stubberfield

Overview of this book

The data science job market is saturated with professionals of all backgrounds, including academics, researchers, bootcampers, and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) graduates. This poses a challenge for companies seeking the best person to fill their roles. At the heart of this selection process is the data science interview, a crucial juncture that determines the best fit for both the candidate and the company. Cracking the Data Science Interview provides expert guidance on approaching the interview process with full preparation and confidence. Starting with an introduction to the modern data science landscape, you’ll find tips on job hunting, resume writing, and creating a top-notch portfolio. You’ll then advance to topics such as Python, SQL databases, Git, and productivity with shell scripting and Bash. Building on this foundation, you'll delve into the fundamentals of statistics, laying the groundwork for pre-modeling concepts, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. The book concludes by offering insights into how best to prepare for the intensive data science interview. By the end of this interview guide, you’ll have gained the confidence, business acumen, and technical skills required to distinguish yourself within this competitive landscape and land your next data science job.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Breaking into the Data Science Field
4
Part 2: Manipulating and Managing Data
10
Part 3: Exploring Artificial Intelligence
16
Part 4: Getting the Job

Deploying a model with containers

In the world of MLOps, containers have become a cornerstone for deploying ML models, offering a lightweight, consistent, and scalable solution for running applications, including ML models, across various environments. Containers encapsulate an application, its dependencies, and runtime into a single package, ensuring that the model behaves the same way regardless of where it is deployed.

This is particularly important in MLOps, where models need to perform consistently across development, testing, and production environments. Once the model is containerized, it can be deployed to a variety of platforms. Cloud services such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) can be used to manage and scale containers.

Containers address several key challenges in MLOps. First, they solve the “it works on my machine” problem by providing an isolated environment that is consistent across all stages of the deployment...