Data Science Workbench Reviews & Insights

Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) is mainly being used by data engineers in the IT department for Big Data Analytics pipeline from ingestion until feature extraction phase. It is also being used by data scientists in Analytics department for building machine learning models. On top of that, it is also used by business analyst in Big Data Monetization business units for exploration and reporting. CDSW reduces time to market from exploring, modeling, and deploying to production.

Organizations which already implemented on-premise Hadoop based Cloudera Data Platform (CDH) for their Big Data warehouse architecture will definitely get more value from seamless integration of Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) with their existing CDH Platform. However, for organizations with hybrid (cloud and on-premise) data platform without prior implementation of CDH, implementing CDSW can be a challenge technically and financially.

Cloudera is being used on a 6-node Hadoop cluster used for sandbox demonstrations and development. The business problem it was selected to address was the ability to create Machine Learning models in an enterprise environment based on data lake architecture.

The use cases are specific to my industry, and we’re implemented for experimentation and scoring of predictive models.