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Running computations on a schedule in Yandex DataSphere

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Updated at March 6, 2025

You can set up regular run scenarios in Yandex DataSphere using the API by triggering notebook cell execution in Yandex Cloud Functions.

In this tutorial, you will collect information about the most discussed stocks on Reddit, analyze the sentiment of the discussion, and set up regular data updates.

Information is collected and analyzed in DataSphere. Regular cell execution is triggered by a timer created in Cloud Functions.

To set up regular runs of Jupyter Notebook:

  1. Prepare your infrastructure.
  2. Create a notebook.
  3. Upload and process data.
  4. Create a Cloud Functions.
  5. Create a timer

If you no longer need the resources you created, delete them.

Getting started

Before getting started, register in Yandex Cloud, set up a community, and link your billing account to it.

  1. On the DataSphere home page, click Try for free and select an account to log in with: Yandex ID or your working account with the identity federation (SSO).
  2. Select the Yandex Cloud Organization organization you are going to use in Yandex Cloud.
  3. Create a community.
  4. Link your billing account to the DataSphere community you are going to work in. Make sure you have a linked billing account and its status is ACTIVE or TRIAL_ACTIVE. If you do not have a billing account yet, create one in the DataSphere interface.

The cost of implementing regular runs includes:

Prepare the infrastructure

Log in to the Yandex Cloud management console and select the organization you use to access DataSphere. On the Yandex Cloud Billing page, make sure you have a billing account linked.

If you have an active billing account, you can create or select a folder to deploy your infrastructure in, on the cloud page.

Note

If you use an identity federation to access Yandex Cloud, billing details might be unavailable to you. In this case, contact your Yandex Cloud organization administrator.

Create a folder

  1. In the management console, select a cloud and click Create folder.
  2. Name your folder, e.g., data-folder.
  3. Click Create.

Create a service account for the DataSphere project

To access a DataSphere project from a Cloud Functions function, you need a service account with the datasphere.community-projects.editor and functions.functionInvoker roles.

  1. Go to data-folder.
  2. In the list of services, select Identity and Access Management.
  3. Click Create service account.
  4. Enter a name for the service account, e.g., reddit-user.
  5. Click Add role and assign the datasphere.community-projects.editor and functions.functionInvoker roles to the service account.
  6. Click Create.

Add the service account to a project

To enable the service account to run a DataSphere project, add it to the list of project members.

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. In the Members tab, click Add member.
  3. Select the reddit-user account and click Add.

Configure the project

To reduce DataSphere usage costs, configure the time to release the VM attached to the project.

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Go to the Settings tab.
  3. Under General settings, click  Edit.
  4. To configure Stop inactive VM after, select Custom and specify 5 minutes.
  5. Click Save.

Create a notebook

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Click Open project in JupyterLab and wait for the loading to complete.
  3. In the top panel, click File and select New → Notebook.
  4. Select a kernel and click Select.
  5. Right-click the notebook and select Rename. Enter the name: test_classifier.ipynb.

Upload and process data

To upload information on the most discussed stocks on Reddit and the sentiment of the discussion, paste the code to the test_classifier.ipynb notebook cells. You will use it to select the top three most discussed stocks and save them to a CSV file in project storage.

  1. Open the DataSphere project:

    1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

    2. Click Open project in JupyterLab and wait for the loading to complete.
    3. Open the notebook tab.

  2. Import the libraries:

    import pandas as pd
import requests
import os.path

  3. Initialize the variables:

    REQUEST_URL = "https://tradestie.com/api/v1/apps/reddit"
FILE_NAME = "/home/jupyter/datasphere/project/stock_sentiments_data.csv"
TICKERS = ['NVDA', 'TSLA', 'AAPL']

  4. Create a function that sends a request to the Tradestie API and returns a response as pandas.DataFrame:

    def load_data():
    response = requests.get(REQUEST_URL)
    stocks = pd.DataFrame(response.json())
    stocks = stocks[stocks['ticker'].isin(TICKERS)]
    stocks.drop('sentiment', inplace=True, axis=1)
    return stocks

  5. Set a condition that defines a file to write stock information to:

    if os.path.isfile(FILE_NAME):
    stocks = pd.read_csv(FILE_NAME)
else:
    stocks = load_data()
    stocks['count'] = 1
    stocks.to_csv(FILE_NAME, index=False)

  6. Upload the updated stock data:

    stocks_update = load_data()

  7. Compare the updated and existing data:

    stocks = stocks.merge(stocks_update, how='left', on = 'ticker')
stocks['no_of_comments_y'] = stocks['no_of_comments_y'].fillna(stocks['no_of_comments_x'])
stocks['sentiment_score_y'] = stocks['sentiment_score_y'].fillna(stocks['sentiment_score_y'])

  8. Update the arithmetic average count and sentiment scores:

    stocks['count'] += 1
stocks['no_of_comments_x'] += (stocks['no_of_comments_y'] - stocks['no_of_comments_x'])/stocks['count']
stocks['sentiment_score_x'] += (stocks['sentiment_score_y'] - stocks['sentiment_score_x'])/stocks['count']
stocks = stocks[['no_of_comments_x', 'sentiment_score_x', 'ticker', 'count']]
stocks.columns = ['no_of_comments', 'sentiment_score', 'ticker', 'count']
print(stocks)

  9. Save the results to a file:

    stocks.to_csv(FILE_NAME, index=False)

Create a Cloud Functions

To start computations without opening JupyterLab, you need a Cloud Functions that will trigger computations in a notebook via the API.

  1. In the management console, select the folder where you want to create a function.
  2. Select Cloud Functions.
  3. Click Create function.
  4. Enter a name for the function, e.g., my-function.
  5. Click Create function.

Create a Cloud Functions version

Versions contain the function code, run parameters, and all required dependencies.

  1. In the management console, select the folder containing the function.

  2. Select Cloud Functions.

  3. Select the function to create a version of.

  4. Under Last version, click Сreate in editor.

  5. Select the Python runtime environment. Do not select the Add files with code examples option.

  6. Choose the Code editor method.

  7. Click Create file and specify a file name, e.g., index.

  8. Enter the function code by inserting your project ID and the absolute path to the project notebook:

    import requests

def handler(event, context):

    url = 'https://datasphere.api.cloud.yandex.net/datasphere/v2/projects/<project_ID>:execute'
    body = {"notebookId": "/home/jupyter/datasphere/project/test_classifier.ipynb"}
    headers = {"Content-Type" : "application/json",
               "Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(context.token['access_token'])}
    resp = requests.post(url, json = body, headers=headers)

    return {
    'body': resp.json(),
    }

    Where:

    • <project_ID>: ID of the DataSphere project displayed on the project page under its name.
    • notebookId: Absolute path to the project notebook.

  9. Under Parameters, set the version parameters:

    • Entry point: index.handler.
    • Service account: reddit-user.

  10. Click Save changes.

Create a timer

To run a function every 15 minutes, you will need a timer.

  1. In the management console, select the folder where you want to create a timer.

  2. Select Cloud Functions.

  3. In the left-hand panel, select Triggers.

  4. Click Create trigger.

  5. Under Basic settings:

    • Enter a name and description for the trigger.
    • In the Type field, select Timer.
    • In the Launched resource field, select Function.

  6. Under Timer settings, set the function invocation schedule to Every 15 minutes.

  7. Under Function settings, select a function and specify:

  8. Click Create trigger.

From now on, the stock_sentiments_data.csv file will be updated every 15 minutes. You can find it next to the notebook.

How to delete the resources you created

To stop paying for the resources you created:

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