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Learning Storm

By : Ankit Jain, Anand Nalya
Book Image

Learning Storm

By: Ankit Jain, Anand Nalya

Overview of this book

<p>Starting with the very basics of Storm, you will learn how to set up Storm on a single machine and move on to deploying Storm on your cluster. You will understand how Kafka can be integrated with Storm using the Kafka spout.</p> <p>You will then proceed to explore the Trident abstraction tool with Storm to perform stateful stream processing, guaranteeing single message processing in every topology. You will move ahead to learn how to integrate Hadoop with Storm. Next, you will learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, and Kafka to realize the full potential of Storm.</p> <p>Finally, you will perform in-depth case studies on Apache log processing and machine learning with a focus on Storm, and through these case studies, you will discover Storm's realm of possibilities.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Storm
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The use case – clustering synthetic control data


A control chart represents how a system behaves over time. It is a graph that plots one or more variables of a system or process over time. This information can be used for quality control in manufacturing and business process. When only one variable is plotted against time, it is called a univariate control chart, and when more than one variable is plotted against time, it is called a multivariate control chart.

In this chapter, we will be working with a synthetic control chart time series data provided by the UCI Machine Learning Repository. Each of the control chart belongs to one of the following categories:

  • Normal

  • Cyclic

  • Increasing trend

  • Decreasing trend

  • Upward shift

  • Downward shift

Each of the control charts consists of 60 columns, each a decimal value. There are 100 records for each category. Further details about the dataset can be found at http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/databases/synthetic_control/synthetic_control.data.html.

We will be using...