Higher Performance Python (ODSC 2019)

Making Pythonic data science faster with line_profiler, more efficient Pandas, dask, Swifter and compilation with Numba. Get a 100x speed-up on common operations using smarter tool choices.

1. Tools for Higher Performance Python @IanOzsvald – ianozsvald.com Ian Ozsvald ODSC 2019
2.  Interim Chief Data Scientist  19+ years experience  Quickly build strategic data science plans  Team coaching & public courses Introductions By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald 2nd Edition April 2020
3.  Introduce profiling, faster Pandas, multi-core  Reflect on “good practice” so you can be highly performant Today’s goal By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
4.  Calculate features including slope  Ordinary Least Squared on time series  100,000 rows in a DataFrame to trial  Estimate for 100x (52wk*2 time windows)  Lots of CPU time – can we do better? A typical higher-performance task By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
5. A typical task – need slope of the line By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
6. A typical task – add m By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
7. By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald Introduce 2 solutions
8. By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald Sklearn is slow?!
9. By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald line_profiler Sklearn is safe These overheads apply to this small data case
10. Pandas iloc & looping (with lstsq) By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
11. Pandas iterrows By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
12. Pandas apply By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
13. Pandas apply with raw=True By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
14. Swifter By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
15. Numba when raw=True By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
16.  Python, Pandas and NumPy distributed computing  Bag (standard Python collections), Array (NumPy) and Distributed DataFrame (Pandas)  dask-ml for distributed sklearn machine learning  Super-easy parallelised Pandas functions Dask By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
17. Dask with Numba By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
18.  Sklearn & iloc – 90 minutes  Lstsq & apply raw – 10 minutes  With Numba – 1 minute  Add Dask – 30 seconds (180x theoretical speed-up)  Don’t go crazy – remember maintenance Costs on the “big problem” By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
19.  iloc & apply are fine, cache where possible  Sklearn in dev, lstsq for prod? Maintenance cost...  Numba (and Dask) need team buy-in  Profile before trying ideas (else you’re guessing)  Test everything! Bulwark is nice On being “highly performant” By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
20.  We publish the 2nd edition next April  Thanks to O’Reilly for free copies to sign  I run training courses – come chat and tell me your needs please! Book signing (1st ed) later today By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald
21.  Measure – don’t guess  Test everything  I’d love a postcard if you learned something new  Join my Thoughts & Jobs email list for tips via my blog  Lots of past talks on ianozsvald.com Summary By [ian]@ianozsvald[.com] Ian Ozsvald