Open Source Data Science Platform
Kontarion is a containerized Data Science platform with support for GPU accelerated AI / ML based on “Rocker project” stacks extended w Python/Anaconda and more.
Supports polyglot data science workflows:
- R with web UI (RStudio) and with Shiny, RStudio and Rmarkdown Notebooks.
- Python with Jupyter Notebooks.
- Supports also other languages used in Data Science (STAN, C, C++ etc)
Moby, Docker? Deploy it where containers run!
Container Contents
Base stack from ROpenSci - starts from a versioned “Rocker project” stack for machine learning and adds Anaconda/Python/Jupyter and more.
- Containers are on Docker Hub at https://hub.docker.com/r/kthb/kontarion (“
docker pull kthb/kontarion”) - Sources are on GitHub on https://github.com/KTH-Library/kontarion
- Demo/use case example: Bibliometrics at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology: https://kth-library.github.io/
Annual Bibliometric Monitoring @ KTH
Benefits
Traditional Business Intelligence software doesn’t have a great fit with modern agile data science workflows on the web. In comparison, Kontarion offers:
- Less vendor lock-in (and open source licensing reduces cost).
- An open source based platform making use of containers
- Support data science work with R and Python for ML/AI, including GitHub/DockerHub-friendly workflows.
- Support ML/AI w GPU acceleration for Big Data / Fast Data (connects to Apache Spark)
- Support developing and deployment of APIs, Web apps and other data infrastructure components
Use cases and contact
Use cases
Although currently used primarily for Bibliometric analytics @ KTH, other data science workflows are supported:
- https://spark.rstudio.com/mlib/ (Spark Machine Learning lib!)
- https://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/
- https://tensorflow.rstudio.com/
- https://www.r-bloggers.com/
- https://plot.ly/dash/
- https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Runs where containers run (deploy with Docker Swarm / Kubernetes etc).
Contact and further info
Read more about Open Data Science platforms and trends at:
https://kth-library.github.io/open-datascience-platforms
Questions? Reach me at:
Developer / Contributions?