Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

Chapter 8. Sharing Models with Prediction Services

Thus far, we have examined how to build a variety of models with data sources ranging from standard 'tabular' data to text and images. However, this only accomplishes part of our goal in business analysis: we can generate predictions from a dataset, but we cannot easily share the results with colleagues or with other software systems within a company. We also cannot easily replicate the results as new data becomes available without manually re-running the sorts of analyses discussed in previous chapters or scale it to larger datasets over time. We will also have difficulty to use our models in a public setting, such as a company's website, without revealing the details of the analysis through ...