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+This is a survey of the capabilities of SystemDS compared to other popular languages and libraries. The survey has been
+broken down into 3 components based on the different phases of the ML lifecycle: source, build, and deploy. A further
+grouping is based on the DSLs supported by SystemDS: DML and Python. 
+
+# References
+1. Boehm, Matthias, Arun Kumar, and Jun Yang. "Data management in machine learning systems." Synthesis Lectures on Data
+Management 11.1 (2019): 1-173.
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+# Overview
+
+The build phase of the ML lifecycle includes the following tasks [1]:
+1. Model training
+2. Model tuning and analysis
+3. Model validation
+
+# References
+1. Hapke, Hannes, and Catherine Nelson. Building machine learning pipelines. O'Reilly Media, 2020.
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+# Overview
+
+The deploy phase of the ML lifecycle includes the following tasks [1, 2]:
+1. Model deployment
+2. Monitoring
+
+# References
+1. Hapke, Hannes, and Catherine Nelson. Building machine learning pipelines. O'Reilly Media, 2020.
+2. https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx
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+# Overview
+
+The source phase of the ML lifecycle includes the following tasks [1]:
+1. Data ingestion
+2. Data validation
+3. Data preprocessing
+
+# References
+1. Hapke, Hannes, and Catherine Nelson. Building machine learning pipelines. O'Reilly Media, 2020.
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+# Data ingestion
+# Data validation
+# Data preprocessing
+
+# References
+1. https://rpubs.com/prtk/900512
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+# Data ingestion
+# Data validation
+# Data preprocessing
+
+# References
+1. https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/index.html
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+# Data ingestion
+# Data validation
+# Data preprocessing
+
+# References
+1. https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/classes.html