Is there any guidance on transitioning an existing...
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:08 PMIs there any guidance on transitioning an existing project to Kedro? I have a data science project which is currently relatively unstructured. I'm attempting to transition to Kedro by creating a directory in the project for the Kedro project to live in and then move one step at a time from the pipeline over
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Sajid Alam
08/08/2023, 2:18 PMWe have plans to add guides to transitioning to Kedro from existing projects. But if you need help with anything in the mean time please don't hesitate to reach out.
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:34 PMI think the best strategy today isto generate an empty Kedro project and transition one pipeline at a time
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:38 PMAn issue with that approach is that this project is mostly one pipeline. It's more scientist code than engineer code and so I wanted to avoid having to transition the whole pipeline all at once. Ideally I wanted to create one node at a time in the same repo so that the old and new pipelines can share data
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:39 PMSo a kedro pipeline can be any granularity you want
datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:39 PMso if you want to merge the data processing park at the beginning you run
kedro pipeline create data_processingj
Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:42 PMAnd then split them out into individual nodes?
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:42 PMwell just the data processing part in this example
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:43 PMSo then IIUC
Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:47 PMRight now there is a bunch of manual process involved in running this pipeline. We have a folder of Python scripts which ingest the previous step of data output and then call into the next step of data processing, and these need to be called by hand. This project is in the middle of transitioning from client number 1 to clients number 2 and 3, so this is quickly not going to work as we need to start generalizing the data processing pipeline to different client data. One of our big goals in transitioning to Kedro is to be able to get rid of this manual process and have more control over the pipeline.
So you're suggesting that we make each script its own Kedro pipeline and move them over one by one with their code dependencies?
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:50 PMI think that makes sense
datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:50 PMbut my push is move the smallest most self contained part first
datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:50 PMand see if it works
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:50 PMThat's the goal
Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:50 PMbut I think that means the Kedro project needs to be in the same repo
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:50 PMWhilst a bit ugly, that shouldn’t be an issue
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:51 PMWhat would the advantage be of making each script its own pipeline versus a node in a growing single pipeline?
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:53 PMSo I think in general that’s the right way to write Kedro anyway, a
pipelinedatajoely
08/08/2023, 2:54 PMthis was adapted from a demo project I made aggggeeeessss ago
https://github.com/datajoely/modular-spaceflights
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:56 PMHow angrily were you using Kedro?
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:56 PMWhat do you mean in this context? I guess I was trying to show a representative way a practitioner would use it after using it in the real world for a couple of years
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMJust joking. It says "This project is designed to be a realistic example of what Kedro looks like when used in anger."
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMThis all makes sense
Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMThank you for the guidance
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datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMoh haha
datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMagain a long time since I wrote that
datajoely
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMlet’s call it a 6/10
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Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:58 PMlol
Jon Cohen
08/08/2023, 2:59 PMWell thank you. I'll come back when I have more questions. One of the reasons we settled on Kedro was the level of support on this channel, so your effort is appreciated
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Nok Lam Chan
08/09/2023, 8:07 PMHey! I am very interested in this topic but I am off today. I would get back to this tomorrow, meanwhile if you have questions, please fire it 🚀
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