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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

Summary


This chapter has attempted to provide you with an overview of some of the functionality available within the Apache Spark MLlib module. It has also shown the functionality that will soon be available in terms of ANNs or artificial neural networks. You might have been impressed by how well ANNs work. It is not possible to cover all the areas of MLlib due to the time and space allowed for this chapter. In addition, we now want to concentrate more on the SparkML library in the next chapter, which speeds up machine learning by supporting DataFrames and the underlying Catalyst and Tungsten optimizations.

We saw how to develop Scala-based examples for Naive Bayes classification, K-Means clustering, and ANNs. You learned how to prepare test data for these Spark MLlib routines. You also saw that they all accept the LabeledPoint structure, which contains features and labels.

Additionally, each approach takes a training and prediction step to training and testing a model using different datasets...