Data Science JupyterLab environment and the Accelerated Data Science SDK are enhanced
- Services: Data Science
- Release Date: March 19, 2020
The JupyterLab notebook session interface is enhanced so that the JupyterLab environment now supports:
- The Variable Inspector extension.
- The Table of Content extension.
- Renders
geojson,fasta,plotly,bokeh, andjsonfiles natively. - Latex is rendered in markdown cells.
The Accelerated Data Science (ADS) SDK is enhanced as follows:
- Performance improvements of the ADW dataset loader resulting in a significant speedup.
DatasetFactory.open() with format='sql'no longer requiresindex_colto be specified. Additionally, thetableparameter can be either atableor asqlexpression inDatasetFactory.open().- ADS no longer instantiates an H2O cluster on behalf of the user. Instead the user needs to use
import h2oto own and start their own cluster. - You can now profile Dask operations in ADS, which allows you to monitor the CPU and memory consumption in your notebook session.
- Dask version upgrade (version 2.10.1) with support for OCI Object Storage.
- Several bugs in ADS have been fixed including the upsampling recommendation, visualizations issues for model evaluation, and so on.