Data Version Control (DVC) is an open-source system specifically designed for managing version control in data science and machine learning initiatives. It provides a Git-like interface that allows users to systematically organize data, models, and experiments, making it easier to oversee and version various types of files such as images, audio, video, and text. This system helps structure the machine learning modeling process into a reproducible workflow, ensuring consistency in experimentation. DVC's integration with existing software engineering tools is seamless, empowering teams to articulate every facet of their machine learning projects through human-readable metafiles that detail data and model versions, pipelines, and experiments. This methodology promotes adherence to best practices and the use of well-established engineering tools, thus bridging the gap between the realms of data science and software development. By utilizing Git, DVC facilitates the versioning and sharing of complete machine learning projects, encompassing source code, configurations, parameters, metrics, data assets, and processes by committing the DVC metafiles as placeholders. Furthermore, its user-friendly approach encourages collaboration among team members, enhancing productivity and innovation within projects.
