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Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Mohammed Guller, Siamak Amirghodsi, Shuen Mei, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall
Book Image

Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Mohammed Guller, Siamak Amirghodsi, Shuen Mei, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall

Overview of this book

Machine learning aims to extract knowledge from data, relying on fundamental concepts in computer science, statistics, probability, and optimization. Learning about algorithms enables a wide range of applications, from everyday tasks such as product recommendations and spam filtering to cutting edge applications such as self-driving cars and personalized medicine. You will gain hands-on experience of applying these principles using Apache Spark, a resilient cluster computing system well suited for large-scale machine learning tasks. This book begins with a quick overview of setting up the necessary IDEs to facilitate the execution of code examples that will be covered in various chapters. It also highlights some key issues developers face while working with machine learning algorithms on the Spark platform. We progress by uncovering the various Spark APIs and the implementation of ML algorithms with developing classification systems, recommendation engines, text analytics, clustering, and learning systems. Toward the final chapters, we’ll focus on building high-end applications and explain various unsupervised methodologies and challenges to tackle when implementing with big data ML systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Building a scalable recommendation engine using collaborative filtering in Spark 2.0


In this recipe, we will be demonstrating a system that utilizes a known as collaborative filtering. At the core, collaborative filtering analyzes the relationship users themselves and the dependencies between the inventory (for example, movies, books, news articles, or songs) to identify user-to-item relationships based on a set of secondary factors called latent factors (for example, female/male, happy/sad, active/passive). The key here is that you do not need to know the latent factors in advance.

The recommendation will be produced via the ALS algorithm which is a collaborative filtering technique. At a high level, collaborative filtering entails making predictions of what a user may be interested in based on collecting previously known preferences, combined with the preferences of many other users. We will be using the ratings data from the MovieLens dataset and will convert it into input features...