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Use scikit-learn and AI lifecycle capabilities to predict Boston house prices with ibm-watson-machine-learning
This notebook contains steps and code to demonstrate support of AI Lifecycle features in Watson Machine Learning Service. It contains steps and code to work with ibm-watson-machine-learning library available in PyPI repository. It also 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 3.10.
Learning goals
The learning goals of this notebook are:
Download an externally trained scikit-learn model with dataset.
Persist an external model in Watson Machine Learning repository.
Deploy model for online scoring using client library.
Score sample records using client library.
Update previously persisted model.
Redeploy model in-place.
Scale deployment.
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 api_key
.
Alternatively you can use username
and password
to authenticate WML services.
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.
In this section, you will learn how to store your model in Watson Machine Learning repository by using the Watson Machine Learning Client.
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 Watson Machine Learning Client.
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
4.3: Score
You can use below 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.
In this section, you'll learn how to store new version of your model in Watson Machine Learning repository by using the Watson Machine Learning Client.
5.1: Publish new version of the model
Save the current model version.
Define new model name and update model content.
Save new model revision of the updated model.
Note: Model revisions can be identified by model id
and rev
number.
Get model rev
number from creation details:
You can list existing revisions of the model.
5.2: Get model details
In this section, you'll learn how to redeploy new version of the model by using the Watson Machine Learning Client.
6.1 Redeploy model
Wait for the deployment update:
6.2 Get updated deployment details
In this section, you'll learn how to scale your deployment by creating more copies of stored model with Watson Machine Learning Client. This feature is for providing High-Availability and to support higher throughput
7.1 Scale deployment
In this example, 2 deployment copies will be made.
7.2 Get scaled deployment details
7.3 Score updated deployment
You can use below 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 Jan Sołtysik, Intern
Copyright © 2020-2025 IBM. This notebook and its source code are released under the terms of the MIT License.