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Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI - Second Edition

By : François Voron
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Book Image

Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI - Second Edition

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By: François Voron

Overview of this book

Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI is the go-to resource for creating efficient and dependable data science API backends. This second edition incorporates the latest Python and FastAPI advancements, along with two new AI projects – a real-time object detection system and a text-to-image generation platform using Stable Diffusion. The book starts with the basics of FastAPI and modern Python programming. You'll grasp FastAPI's robust dependency injection system, which facilitates seamless database communication, authentication implementation, and ML model integration. As you progress, you'll learn testing and deployment best practices, guaranteeing high-quality, resilient applications. Throughout the book, you'll build data science applications using FastAPI with the help of projects covering common AI use cases, such as object detection and text-to-image generation. These hands-on experiences will deepen your understanding of using FastAPI in real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be well equipped to maintain, design, and monitor applications to meet the highest programming standards using FastAPI, empowering you to create fast and reliable data science API backends with ease while keeping up with the latest advancements.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Python and FastAPI
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Part 2: Building and Deploying a Complete Web Backend with FastAPI
13
Part 3: Building Resilient and Distributed Data Science Systems with FastAPI

Using a computer vision model with Hugging Face

Computer vision is a field of study and technology that focuses on enabling computers to extract meaningful information from digital images or videos, simulating human vision capabilities. It involves developing algorithms based on statistical methods or machine learning that allow machines to understand, analyze, and interpret visual data. A typical example of computer vision’s application is object detection: a system able to detect and recognize objects in an image. This is the kind of system we’ll build in this chapter.

To help us in this task, we’ll use a set of tools provided by Hugging Face. Hugging Face is a company whose goal is to allow developers to use the most recent and powerful AI models quickly and easily. For this, it has built two things:

  • A set of open source Python tools built on top of machine learning libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. We’ll use some of them in this chapter...