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This session provides an overview of the MapD kernel extension for Jupyter Notebook & how to use it in a typical machine learning workflow.

MapD Core is an open source, analytical SQL engine, that has been designed from the ground up to harness the parallelism inherent in GPUs. This enables queries on billions of rows of data in milliseconds.

MapD Core also supports the GPU data frame (GDF) from GO.ai, which is based on Apache Arrow, & is designed for passing data between processes while keeping it all in GPU memory. In order to provide Data Scientists with a seamless experience, MapD created a Jupyter Notebook kernel extension that can be installed from a MapD managed Conda channel.

We will demonstrate in this session how to deploy Jupyter Notebook with the MapD kernel extension, & how to use it in a typical data science modeling exercise. We will show how the Jupyter Notebook MapD kernel connects to a MapD server backend & how its magic function (%%sql) executes commands on the MapD Core SQL engine. These SQL queries return their results into the GPU memory data frame using the PyGDF library. The GPU resident data frame is then accessed by the machine learning modeling framework to test, train, & make predictions.

Randy Zwitch is a Senior Developer Advocate at MapD, enabling customers & community users alike to utilize MapD to its fullest potential. With broad industry experience in Energy, Digital Analytics, Banking, Telecommunications & Media, Randy brings a wealth of knowledge across verticals as well as an in-depth knowledge of open-source tools for analytics.

Schedule:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Networking
6:30pm - 7:30pm Talk
7:30pm - 8:00pm Networking

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