Reproducible Data Science with Pachyderm

Create scalable and reliable data pipelines easily with Pachyderm

Key Features

• Learn how to build an enterprise-level reproducible data science platform with Pachyderm
• Deploy Pachyderm on cloud platforms such as AWS EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service
• Integrate Pachyderm with other data science tools, such as Pachyderm Notebooks

Book Description

Pachyderm is an open source project that enables data scientists to run reproducible data pipelines and scale them to an enterprise level. This book will teach you how to implement Pachyderm to create collaborative data science workflows and reproduce your ML experiments at scale.

You'll begin your journey by exploring the importance of data reproducibility and comparing different data science platforms. Next, you'll explore how Pachyderm fits into the picture and its significance, followed by learning how to install Pachyderm locally on your computer or a cloud platform of your choice. You'll then discover the architectural components and Pachyderm's main pipeline principles and concepts. The book demonstrates how to use Pachyderm components to create your first data pipeline and advances to cover common operations involving data, such as uploading data to and from Pachyderm to create more complex pipelines. Based on what you've learned, you'll develop an end-to-end ML workflow, before trying out the hyperparameter tuning technique and the different supported Pachyderm language clients. Finally, you'll learn how to use a SaaS version of Pachyderm with Pachyderm Notebooks.

By the end of this book, you will learn all aspects of running your data pipelines in Pachyderm and manage them on a day-to-day basis.

What you will learn

• Understand the importance of reproducible data science for enterprise
• Explore the basics of Pachyderm, such as commits and branches
• Upload data to and from Pachyderm
• Implement common pipeline operations in Pachyderm
• Create a real-life example of hyperparameter tuning in Pachyderm
• Combine Pachyderm with Pachyderm language clients in Python and Go

Who this book is for

This book is for new as well as experienced data scientists and machine learning engineers who want to build scalable infrastructures for their data science projects. Basic knowledge of Python programming and Kubernetes will be beneficial. Familiarity with Golang will be helpful.

Table of Contents

1. The Problem of Data Reproducibility
2. Pachyderm Basics
3. Pachyderm Pipeline Specification
4. Installing Pachyderm Locally
5. Installing Pachyderm on a Cloud Platform
6. Creating Your First Pipeline
7. Pachyderm Operations
8. Creating an End-to-End Machine Learning Workflow
9. Distributed Hyperparameter Tuning with Pachyderm
10. Pachyderm Language Clients
11. Using Pachyderm Notebooks

Svetlana Karslioglu is a seasoned documentation professional with over 10 years of experience in top Silicon Valley companies. During her tenure at Pachyderm, she authored much of the open source documentation for Pachyderm and was also in charge of the documentation infrastructure. Throughout her career, she has spoken at local conferences and given talks advocating for open infrastructure and unbiased research in artificial intelligence. When Svetlana is not busy writing books, she spends time with her three children and her husband, Murat.