tun-lin/awesome-tools

curated list of awesome tools and libraries for specific domains

awesome-tools

curated list of awesome tools and libraries for specific domains

geospatial processing

• python
  • plotting raster https://github.com/fmaussion/salem
  • raster handling http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/
  • multi dimensional arrays http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/
  • spatial data including joins (works with dask) http://geopandas.org
  • cleaning of addresses: https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
• postgis
  • multi dimensional
    • http://www.nearimprov.com/nd-spatial-index-in-postgis/
• hadoop
  • http://www.geomesa.org
    • https://github.com/spatialcurrent/ansible-geomesa-accumulo-ubuntu
  • https://github.com/DataSystemsLab/GeoSpark
  • https://github.com/harsha2010/magellan
  • https://github.com/locationtech/geowave
  • https://github.com/locationtech/geotrellis
    • http://rasterframes.io
  • https://github.com/Esri/spatial-framework-for-hadoop and https://github.com/Esri/gis-tools-for-hadoop as well as their java api https://github.com/Esri/geometry-api-java
  • https://github.com/ngageoint/mrgeo

indexing

• https://github.com/riskaware-ltd/open-eaggr
• https://github.com/uber/h3

nlp

• http://www.nltk.org/book/
• https://github.com/keon/awesome-nlp
• https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp
• https://github.com/databricks/spark-corenlp (check license extra carefully for commercial setup)
• pyspark with https://spacy.io
• https://explosion.ai
• https://github.com/clulab/processors
• https://github.com/google/sling
• https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
• https://github.com/bplank/bilstm-aux
• https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText
• https://github.com/facebookresearch/InferSent
• https://github.com/google/sentencepiece
• https://github.com/zalandoresearch/flair
• https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire

chatbots

• https://rasa.com

clustering & distances

• https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib
• T-SNE interactive https://js.tensorflow.org
• UMAP (faster alternative to T-SNE) https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap
• fast DBSCAN. https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/hdbscan

textual preprocessing

• parsing HTML
  • https://github.com/GravityLabs/goose
  • https://github.com/ruippeixotog/scala-scraper
• clustering
  • https://github.com/derrickburns/generalized-kmeans-clustering

operations & monitoring

• general operations
  • logging & alerting
    • https://sentry.io/welcome/
    • https://bosun.org
    • https://www.datadoghq.com/product/
    • https://opencensus.io
• certificates
  • https://certbot.eff.org and https://letsencrypt.org for free and automated https/ssl certificates
• hadoop monitoring
  • https://github.com/linkedin/dr-elephant
  • https://github.com/qubole/sparklens
  • https://sites.google.com/site/sparkbigdebug/home
  • https://github.com/SparkMonitor/varOne (not maintained)
  • performance test https://github.com/databricks/spark-perf
  • https://github.com/conversant/spark-profiler
• testing
  • https://www.slideshare.net/hkarau/testing-and-validating-distributed-systems-with-apache-spark-and-apache-beam-fosdem-2018-1?trk=v-feed
• data quality
  • hadoop
    • https://github.com/FRosner/drunken-data-quality
• packer base images
  • http://chef.github.io/bento/

time series

small

• prediction
  • https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/forecast/index.html
  • https://github.com/facebook/prophet
  • https://pythonawesome.com/probabilistic-time-series-modeling-in-python/
  • bayesian structural https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bsts/index.html
  • multi prediction
    • https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/forecastHybrid/index.html
    • https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/opera/index.html https://github.com/Dralliag/opera
  • https://github.com/ellisp/forecastxgb-r-package
  • https://github.com/dmbee/seglearn
• feature extration
  • https://github.com/blue-yonder/tsfresh
  • https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tspackages/
  • https://www.featuretools.com (but also worth in general)

hadoop

• handling & prediction
  • https://github.com/sryza/spark-timeseries
  • https://spark-summit.org/2016/events/huohua-a-distributed-time-series-analysis-framework-for-spark/
  • https://github.com/twosigma/flint
  • https://databricks.gitbooks.io/databricks-spark-reference-applications/content/timeseries/index.html
  • correlation https://github.com/Sotera/correlation-approximation
  • https://github.com/sryza/spark-timeseries
• anomaly detection
  • https://github.com/numenta/htm.java
• storage
  • http://www.chronix.io

machine learning

model metadata

• https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred
• http://studio.ml (also hyper opt)
• https://github.com/mitdbg/modeldb
• https://dataversioncontrol.com
• https://www.comet.ml
• https://aetros.com
• https://github.com/ModelChimp/modelchimp

model building

• feature engineering
  • https://www.featuretools.com
• small
  • http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
  • production processes https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro
  • R
    • preprocessing
      • https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vtreat/index.html
  • python
    • automl
      • teapot
      • http://automl.github.io/auto-sklearn/stable/
    • https://github.com/kingfengji/gcForest
    • lambda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-4CrS_j_4
    • improved python https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-intel-distribution-for-python-with-anaconda
    • https://github.com/mthh/jenkspy breaks
    • https://github.com/NeerajSarwan/CPT
• hadoop
  • https://spark.apache.org/mllib/
  • https://github.com/amidst/toolbox
  • fast aggregation in spark https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest
• ensembling
  • http://ml-ensemble.com
  • https://github.com/viisar/brew
  • https://github.com/civisanalytics/civisml-extensions
• specific great models
  • gradient boosted trees
    • xgboost
    • lightgbm
      • https://github.com/Azure/mmlspark
    • catboost https://github.com/catboost/catboost
• visualization of results
  • https://github.com/DistrictDataLabs/yellowbrick

model serving

• own API wrapper around original model code
• http://clipper.ai
• https://mlflow.org
• https://www.acumos.org
• https://polyaxon.com
• http://vespa.ai
• https://github.com/RedisLabsModules/redis-ml
• https://riseml.com
• https://github.com/Hydrospheredata/mist
• https://github.com/Azure/ai-toolkit-iot-edge
• https://www.dominodatalab.com and various other cloud data science work benches
• https://datmo.com
• https://aws.amazon.com/de/sagemaker/

model serialization

• PMML
• https://github.com/combust/mleap

hyperparameter tuning

• https://github.com/kubeflow/katib
• https://sigopt.com
• https://github.com/scikit-optimize/scikit-optimize
• https://github.com/Yelp/MOE

e2e

• https://www.seldon.io
• http://pipeline.ai
• https://datmo.com

ml solutions

• https://predictionio.incubator.apache.org
• https://www.dominodatalab.com

bridiging python / r and big data

• http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/pipe-in-spark/
• sparklyR
• https://github.com/apple/turicreate out of core models on medium sized data

graph processing

• hadoop
  • https://tinkerpop.apache.org
  • https://github.com/dbs-leipzig/gradoop
  • https://github.com/gchq/Gaffer
  • https://graphframes.github.io/index.html
  • connector to neo4j https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-spark-connector
  • communities
    • https://github.com/Sotera/distributed-graph-analytics/tree/master/dga-graphx
• non hadoop
  • https://neo4j.com (single master, multi slave cluster possible)
• tutorial
  • paradise papers https://github.com/johnymontana/pp-viz/blob/master/jupyter/PP_Viz.ipynb

cool videos

• telco hadoop geospatial
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvP54Xo3Ek&feature=youtu.be
  • streaming and declarative models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do7C4UJyWCM
• ml
  • ml pipelines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpR6Vkp7ImA
  • shingles and pipelines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkrh35IF2SU, https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Spark-for-Data-Science
  • gradient boosting comparision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWwwtEM2TA
• streaming
  • kafka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPI925PFD0
  • spark streaming in depth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZU_bw1-ow
  • python https://github.com/mrocklin/streamz
• SQL hadoop & BI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v40HWIlsE_w&t=0s&list=PLSAiKuajRe2kGgi-GhMVE8IXzr5Pb3b5y&index=13
• BMW self driving car & spark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2ufKrrAIs&t=0s&list=PLSAiKuajRe2kGgi-GhMVE8IXzr5Pb3b5y&index=27

visualization

• python
  • https://python-graph-gallery.com for inspiration
  • seaborn
• R
  • ggplot2 + grest themes
• javascript
  • https://uber.github.io/deck.gl/#/
  • https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

bi & dashboarding

• https://metabase.com
• https://looker.com
• python
  • https://github.com/stitchfix/pyxley notebooks
• jupyter
  • http://beakerx.com
  • https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591ee3221233
• zeppelin

type safety

• https://github.com/typelevel/frameless

probabilistic programming

• stan
• pymc3
• https://github.com/uber/pyro

databases

• https://www.cockroachlabs.com (spanner)
• https://www.snowflake.net/de/
• https://snowplowanalytics.com/products/snowplow-open-source/
• hbase-spark
  • via phenix spark
  • https://github.com/hortonworks/shc-release/tree/HDP-2.6.3.0-235-tag
• postgres on GPUs http://www.brytlyt.com
• improved cassandra scylla http://www.scylladb.com
• https://www.mapd.com/platform/
• https://clickhouse.yandex
• https://github.com/biokoda/actordb
• https://clemenswinter.com/2018/07/09/how-to-analyze-billions-of-records-per-second-on-a-single-desktop-pc/amp/

graph dbs

• streaming graphs https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/lemongraph

time series DBs

• https://timescale.com

big real time analytics and data integration

• https://medium.com/@leventov/comparison-of-the-open-source-olap-systems-for-big-data-clickhouse-druid-and-pinot-8e042a5ed1c7
• https://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-Gobblin-or-Spark-Streaming-to-injest-data-from-Kafka-to-HDFS/answer/Prithiviraj-Damodaran

scala

configuration

• typesafe configuration
• https://cir.is/docs/validation
• https://github.com/pureconfig/pureconfig

bio-informatics

• https://github.com/MG-RAST/AWE

startup

• founding / payments https://stripe.com/atlas
• errors
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFYcXvOrwDE
• analytics
  • https://thinkgrowth.org/the-startup-founders-guide-to-analytics-1d2176f20ac1
  • https://retina.ai/blog/dataops-principles/
• data selling company (data as a service DSSV) https://blog.safegraph.com/data-as-a-service-bible-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-running-daas-companies-d4cf4c15c038

recommender

• https://github.com/actionml/universal-recommender
• https://github.com/DataSystemsLab/recdb-postgresql

governance

• apache atlas
• cloudera navigator
• https://www.waterlinedata.com (hadoop only)
• https://alation.com (all)
• https://www.privitar.com

blockchain

• data mining
  • https://www.openmined.org

next gen big data tools

• https://www.weld.rs
• https://datafusion.rs
• http://pachyderm.io
• https://github.com/frankmcsherry/differential-dataflow