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Running Pandas on Bacalhau

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Introduction

Pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real-world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open-source data analysis/manipulation tool available in any language. It is already well on its way towards this goal.

In this tutorial example, we will run Pandas script on Bacalhau.

Prerequisite

To get started, you need to install the Bacalhau client, see more information

1. Running Pandas Locally

To run the Pandas script on Bacalhau for analysis, first, we will place the Pandas script in a container and then run it at scale on Bacalhau.

To get started, you need to install the Pandas library from pip:

pip install pandas

Importing data from CSV to DataFrame

Pandas is built around the idea of a DataFrame, a container for representing data. Below you will create a DataFrame by importing a CSV file. A CSV file is a text file with one record of data per line. The values within the record are separated using the “comma” character. Pandas provides a useful method, named read_csv() to read the contents of the CSV file into a DataFrame. For example, we can create a file named transactions.csv containing details of Transactions. The CSV file is stored in the same directory that contains the Python script.

# read_csv.py
import pandas as pd

print(pd.read_csv("transactions.csv"))

The overall purpose of the command above is to read data from a CSV file (transactions.csv) using Pandas and print the resulting DataFrame.

To download the transactions.csv file, run:

wget https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmfKJT13h5k1b23ja3ZCVg5nFL9oKz2bVXc8oXgtwiwhjz/transactions.csv

To output a content of the transactions.csv file, run:

cat transactions.csv

Running the script

Now let's run the script to read in the CSV file. The output will be a DataFrame object.

python3 read_csv.py

2. Ingesting Data

To run Pandas on Bacalhau you must store your assets in a location that Bacalhau has access to. We usually default to storing data on IPFS and code in a container, but you can also easily upload your script to IPFS too.

3. Running a Bacalhau Job

Now we're ready to run a Bacalhau job, whilst mounting the Pandas script and data from IPFS. We'll use the bacalhau docker run command to do this:

export JOB_ID=$(bacalhau docker run \
    --wait \
    --id-only \
    -i ipfs://QmfKJT13h5k1b23ja3ZCVg5nFL9oKz2bVXc8oXgtwiwhjz:/files \
    -w /files \
    amancevice/pandas \
    -- python read_csv.py)

Structure of the command

  1. bacalhau docker run: call to Bacalhau

  2. amancevice/pandas : Docker image with pandas installed.

  3. -i ipfs://QmfKJT13h5k1b23ja3ZCVg5nFL9oKz2bVXc8oXgtwiwhjz:/files: Mounting the uploaded dataset to path. The -i flag allows us to mount a file or directory from IPFS into the container. It takes two arguments, the first is the IPFS CID

  4. QmfKJT13h5k1b23ja3ZCVg5nFL9oKz2bVXc8oXgtwiwhjz) and the second is the file path within IPFS (/files). The -i flag can be used multiple times to mount multiple directories.

    -w /files Our working directory is /files. This is the folder where we will save the model as it will automatically get uploaded to IPFS as outputs

  5. python read_csv.py: python script to read pandas script

When a job is submitted, Bacalhau prints out the related job_id. We store that in an environment variable so that we can reuse it later on.

4. Checking the State of your Jobs

Job status: You can check the status of the job using bacalhau job list.

bacalhau job list --id-filter ${JOB_ID}

When it says Published or Completed, that means the job is done, and we can get the results.

Job information: You can find out more information about your job by using bacalhau job describe.

bacalhau job describe ${JOB_ID}

Job download: You can download your job results directly by using bacalhau job get. Alternatively, you can choose to create a directory to store your results. In the command below, we created a directory (results) and downloaded our job output to be stored in that directory.

rm -rf results && mkdir -p results
bacalhau job get ${JOB_ID}  --output-dir results

5. Viewing your Job Output

To view the file, run the following command:

cat results/stdout

Support

If you are interested in finding out more about how to ingest your data into IPFS, please see the .

We've already uploaded the script and data to IPFS to the following CID: QmfKJT13h5k1b23ja3ZCVg5nFL9oKz2bVXc8oXgtwiwhjz. You can look at this by browsing to one of the HTTP IPFS proxies like or .

If you have questions or need support or guidance, please reach out to the (#general channel).

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