guildai VS ploomber

Experiment tracking in DvC is implemented using git to store snapshots of a project and related artifacts. You might take a look at Guild AI's support for DvC, which is tightly integrated with DvC stages. You can run any of the stages defined for a project and you get a properly isolated run (each run is a project copy to ensure that you're not corrupting the run if you modify files while it's running - as well as properly supporting concurrent runs). Once you have runs in Guild, you can use any number of tools to study, compare, export, etc.

I built an experiment tracking tool (Guild AI) that focuses on code/model reuse and so this question is dear to my heart :) Best of luck!

I'm not aware of experiment tracking in Jupyter notebooks themselves. Guild AI is able to run notebooks as experiments however.

Disclosure - I'm the author of Guild AI so take this for the biased opinion that it is.

I'm the author of Guild AI (open source experiment tracking). For some time now Guild users have asked for DvC support. This is now available as a pre-release.

Guild AI now has support for running DvC stages as experiments. DvC uses git under the covers to manage project state for each experiment, along with the experiment results. Guild doesn't touch your git repo and instead copies your project source to a new run directory. This ensures that you have a correct record of your experiment without churning your project state.

Guild.ai - https://guild.ai/

Use guild and pytorch-lightning. Make it easy for new contributors to get your data by using dvc as a data access tool.

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Documentation: https://jupysql.ploomber.io

Note that JupySQL is a fork of ipython-sql; which is no longer actively developed. Catherine, ipython-sql's creator, was kind enough to pass the project to us (check out ipython-sql's README).

We'd love to learn what you think and what features we can ship for JupySQL to be the best SQL client! Please let us know in the comments!

For those who don't know, Jupyter has a bash kernel: https://github.com/takluyver/bash_kernel

And you can run Jupyter notebooks from the CLI with Ploomber: https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber

Develop notebook-based pipelines

Fair point. MLflow has a lot of features to cover the end-to-end dev cycle. This SQLite tracker only covers the experiment tracking part.

We have another project to cover the orchestration/pipelines aspect: https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber and we have plans to work on the rest of features. For now, we're focusing on those two.

I recommend taking a look at the ploomber open source. It helps you structure your code and parameterize it in a way that's easier to maintain and test. Our blog has lots of resources about it from testing your code to building a data science platform on AWS.

Developing end-to-end data science infrastructure can get complex. For example, many of us might have struggled to try to integrate AWS services and deal with configuration, permissions, etc. At Ploomber, we’ve worked with many companies in a wide range of industries, such as energy, entertainment, computational chemistry, and genomics, so we are constantly looking for simple solutions to get them started with Data Science in the cloud.

If you like working locally with notebooks, you can run via the free tier of ploomber, that'll allow you to get the Ram/Compute you need for the bigger models as part of the free tier. Also, it has the historical executions so you don't need to remember what you executed an hour later!

It really depends on your use cases, I've seen a lot of those tools that lock you into a certain syntax, framework or weird language (for instance Groovy). If you'd like to use core python or Jupyter notebooks I'd recommend Ploomber, the community support is really strong, there's an emphasis on observability and you can deploy it on any executor like Slurm, AWS Batch or Airflow. In addition, there's a free managed compute (cloud edition) where you can run certain bioinformatics flows like Alphafold or Cripresso2

That's what we do for lineage with https://ploomber.io/