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What is Kedro?

Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular. You can find out more at kedro.org.

Kedro is an open-source Python framework hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation.

How do I install Kedro?

To install Kedro from the Python Package Index (PyPI) run:

pip install kedro

It is also possible to install Kedro using conda:

conda install -c conda-forge kedro

Our Get Started guide contains full installation instructions, and includes how to set up Python virtual environments.

Installation from source

To access the latest Kedro version before its official release, install it from the main branch.

pip install git+https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro@main

What are the main features of Kedro?

FeatureWhat is this?
Project TemplateA standard, modifiable and easy-to-use project template based on Cookiecutter Data Science.
Data CatalogA series of lightweight data connectors used to save and load data across many different file formats and file systems, including local and network file systems, cloud object stores, and HDFS. The Data Catalog also includes data and model versioning for file-based systems.
Pipeline AbstractionAutomatic resolution of dependencies between pure Python functions and data pipeline visualisation using Kedro-Viz.
Coding StandardsTest-driven development using pytest, produce well-documented code using Sphinx, create linted code with support for ruff and make use of the standard Python logging library.
Flexible DeploymentDeployment strategies that include single or distributed-machine deployment as well as additional support for deploying on Argo, Prefect, Kubeflow, AWS Batch, and Databricks.

How do I use Kedro?

The Kedro documentation first explains how to install Kedro and then introduces key Kedro concepts.

You can then review the spaceflights tutorial to build a Kedro project for hands-on experience.

For new and intermediate Kedro users, there's a comprehensive section on how to visualise Kedro projects using Kedro-Viz.

<p align="center"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kedro-org/kedro-viz/main/.github/img/banner.png" alt> <em>A pipeline visualisation generated using Kedro-Viz</em> </p>

Additional documentation explains how to work with Kedro and Jupyter notebooks, and there are a set of advanced user guides for advanced for key Kedro features. We also recommend the API reference documentation for further information.

Why does Kedro exist?

Kedro is built upon our collective best-practice (and mistakes) trying to deliver real-world ML applications that have vast amounts of raw unvetted data. We developed Kedro to achieve the following:

Find out more about how Kedro can answer your use cases from the product FAQs on the Kedro website.

The humans behind Kedro

The Kedro product team and a number of open source contributors from across the world maintain Kedro.

Can I contribute?

Yes! We welcome all kinds of contributions. Check out our guide to contributing to Kedro.

Where can I learn more?

There is a growing community around Kedro. We encourage you to ask and answer technical questions on Slack and bookmark the Linen archive of past discussions.

We keep a list of technical FAQs in the Kedro documentation and you can find a growing list of blog posts, videos and projects that use Kedro over on the awesome-kedro GitHub repository. If you have created anything with Kedro we'd love to include it on the list. Just make a PR to add it!

How can I cite Kedro?

If you're an academic, Kedro can also help you, for example, as a tool to solve the problem of reproducible research. Use the "Cite this repository" button on our repository to generate a citation from the CITATION.cff file.

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