GPU Accelerated Data Analytics & Machine Learning

GPU acceleration is nowadays becoming more and more important. As a demonstration for this shift, an increasing number of online data science platforms is now adding GPU enabled solutions. Some examples are: Kaggle, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, I will first introduce you to the NVIDIA open-source Python RAPIDS libraries and I will then offer you a practical demonstration of how RAPIDS can speed up Data Analysis up to 50 times. All the code used for this article is available on my GitHub and Google Colaboratory for you to play with.