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Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks

By : Alan Bernardo Palacio
Book Image

Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks

By: Alan Bernardo Palacio

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure Databricks helps you to harness the power of distributed computing and apply it to create robust data pipelines, along with training and deploying machine learning and deep learning models. Databricks' advanced features enable developers to process, transform, and explore data. Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks will help you to put your knowledge of Databricks to work to create big data pipelines. The book provides a hands-on approach to implementing Azure Databricks and its associated methodologies that will make you productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you’ll begin with a quick introduction to Databricks core functionalities, before performing distributed model training and inference using TensorFlow and Spark MLlib. As you advance, you’ll explore MLflow Model Serving on Azure Databricks and implement distributed training pipelines using HorovodRunner in Databricks. Finally, you’ll discover how to transform, use, and obtain insights from massive amounts of data to train predictive models and create entire fully working data pipelines. By the end of this MS Azure book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how to work with Databricks to create and manage an entire big data pipeline.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introducing Databricks
4
Section 2: Data Pipelines with Databricks
9
Section 3: Machine and Deep Learning with Databricks

Chapter 10: Model Tracking and Tuning in Azure Databricks

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create machine learning and deep learning models, as well as how to load datasets during distributed training in Azure Databricks. Finding the right machine learning algorithm to solve a problem using machine learning is one thing, but finding the best hyperparameters is another equally or more complex task. In this chapter, we will focus on model tuning, deployment, and control by using MLflow as a Model Repository. We will also use Hyperopt to search for the best set of hyperparameters for our models. We will implement the use of these libraries using deep learning models that have been made using the scikit-learn Python library.

More concretely, we will learn how to track runs of the machine learning model's training to find the most optimal set of hyperparameters, deploy and manage version control for the models using MLflow, and learn how to use Hyperopt as one of the...