Training Gradient Boosted Tree Models with data in your Data Lake

Data Lake

Data lakes are popular because they provide a consolidated, centralized storage area for raw, unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data taken from multiple sources and lacking a predefined schema. They specialize in ingesting structured, semi-structured and unstructured data and provide mechanisms to easily ingest streaming data in addition to batch loads. Data lakes are open format so users avoid lock-in to a proprietary system like a data warehouse. They are also highly durable and low cost because of their ability to scale and leverage object storage.

Gradient Boosted Tree Models

Gradient Boosted Tree (GBT) models are a type of machine learning model that are used for classification and regression problems. They work by combining multiple decision trees together to create a more accurate model. Gradient Boosted Trees are particularly useful when working with large datasets, as they can handle both numerical and categorical data. They are also known for their ability to handle missing data well. Gradient Boosted Trees have become increasingly popular due to their high accuracy rates on many different types of datasets.

With the growing popularity of both data lakes for storage and gradient boosted tree models for AI deployments, it is unsurprising that many organizations are seeking to train gradient boosted tree models using data in their data lake. Kaspian offers native connectors for the most popular data lakes. Just register your data lake as a datastore and link your model training job; Kaspian's autoscaling compute layer makes it easy to train and deploy gradient boosted tree models using any data in your cloud with minimal setup or management.

Learn more about Kaspian and see how our flexible compute layer for the modern data cloud is already reshaping the way companies in industries like retail, manufacturing and logistics are thinking about data engineering and analytics.