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Use scikit-learn to recognize hand-written digits with ibm-watson-machine-learning
This notebook contains steps and code to demonstrate how to persist and deploy locally trained scikit-learn model in Watson Machine Learning Service. This notebook contains steps and code to work with ibm-watson-machine-learning library available in PyPI repository. This notebook introduces commands for getting model and training data, persisting model, deploying model, scoring it, updating the model and redeploying it.
Some familiarity with Python is helpful. This notebook uses Python 3.7 with the ibm-watson-machine-learning package.
Learning goals
The learning goals of this notebook are:
Train sklearn model.
Persist trained model in Watson Machine Learning repository.
Deploy model for online scoring using client library.
Score sample records using client library.
Contents
This notebook contains the following parts:
Connection to WML
Authenticate the Watson Machine Learning service on IBM Cloud Pack for Data. You need to provide platform url
, your username
and password
.
Install and import the ibm-watson-machine-learning
package
Note: ibm-watson-machine-learning
documentation can be found here.
Working with spaces
First of all, you need to create a space that will be used for your work. If you do not have space already created, you can use {PLATFORM_URL}/ml-runtime/spaces?context=icp4data
to create one.
Click New Deployment Space
Create an empty space
Go to space
Settings
tabCopy
space_id
and paste it below
Tip: You can also use SDK to prepare the space for your work. More information can be found here.
Action: Assign space ID below
You can use list
method to print all existing spaces.
To be able to interact with all resources available in Watson Machine Learning, you need to set space which you will be using.
2.1 Explore data
As a first step, you will load the data from scikit-learn sample datasets and perform a basic exploration.
Loaded toy dataset consists of 8x8 pixels images of hand-written digits.
Let's display first digit data and label using data and target.
In next step, you will count data examples.
2.2. Create a scikit-learn model
Prepare data
In this step, you'll split your data into three datasets:
train
test
score
Create pipeline
Next, you'll create scikit-learn pipeline.
In ths step, you will import scikit-learn machine learning packages that will be needed in next cells.
Standardize features by removing the mean and scaling to unit variance.
Next, define estimators you want to use for classification. Support Vector Machines (SVM) with radial basis function as kernel is used in the following example.
Let's build the pipeline now. This pipeline consists of transformer and an estimator.
Train model
Now, you can train your SVM model by using the previously defined pipeline and train data.
Evaluate model
You can check your model quality now. To evaluate the model, use test data.
You can tune your model now to achieve better accuracy. For simplicity of this example tuning section is omitted.
In this section, you will learn how to store your model in Watson Machine Learning repository by using the IBM Watson Machine Learning SDK.
3.1: Publish model
Publish model in Watson Machine Learning repository on Cloud.
Define model name, autor name and email.
3.2: Get model details
3.3 Get all models
In this section you will learn how to create online scoring and to score a new data record by using the IBM Watson Machine Learning SDK.
4.1: Create model deployment
Create online deployment for published model
Note: Here we use deployment url saved in published_model object. In next section, we show how to retrive deployment url from Watson Machine Learning instance.
Now you can print an online scoring endpoint.
You can also list existing deployments.
4.2: Get deployment details
You can use the following method to do test scoring request against deployed model.
Action: Prepare scoring payload with records to score.
Use client.deployments.score()
method to run scoring.
If you want to clean up all created assets:
experiments
trainings
pipelines
model definitions
models
functions
deployments
please follow up this sample notebook.
You successfully completed this notebook! You learned how to use scikit-learn machine learning as well as Watson Machine Learning for model creation and deployment.
Check out our Online Documentation for more samples, tutorials, documentation, how-tos, and blog posts.
Authors
Daniel Ryszka, Software Engineer
Copyright © 2020-2025 IBM. This notebook and its source code are released under the terms of the MIT License.