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Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By : Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei
Book Image

Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By: Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an in-memory, cluster-based data processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as big data processing, analytics, machine learning, and more. With this Learning Path, you can take your knowledge of Apache Spark to the next level by learning how to expand Spark's functionality and building your own data flow and machine learning programs on this platform. You will work with the different modules in Apache Spark, such as interactive querying with Spark SQL, using DataFrames and datasets, implementing streaming analytics with Spark Streaming, and applying machine learning and deep learning techniques on Spark using MLlib and various external tools. By the end of this elaborately designed Learning Path, you will have all the knowledge you need to master Apache Spark, and build your own big data processing and analytics pipeline quickly and without any hassle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Mastering Apache Spark 2.x by Romeo Kienzler • Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics by Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla • Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook by Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen MeiCookbook
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Classification with Naive Bayes


This section will provide a working example of the Apache Spark MLlib Naive Bayes algorithm. It will describe the theory behind the algorithm and will provide a step-by-step example in Scala to show how the algorithm may be used.

Theory on Classification

In order to use the Naive Bayes algorithm to classify a dataset, the data must be linearly divisible; that is, the classes within the data must be linearly divisible by class boundaries. The following figure visually explains this with three datasets and two class boundaries shown via the dotted lines:

Naive Bayes assumes that the features (or dimensions) within a dataset are independent of one another; that is, they have no effect on each other. The following example considers the classification of e-mails as spam. If you have 100 e-mails, then perform the following:

60% of emails are spam
80% of spam emails contain the word buy
20% of spam emails don't contain the word buy
40% of emails are not spam
10% of non...