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Scala Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Arun Manivannan
Book Image

Scala Data Analysis Cookbook

By: Arun Manivannan

Overview of this book

This book will introduce you to the most popular Scala tools, libraries, and frameworks through practical recipes around loading, manipulating, and preparing your data. It will also help you explore and make sense of your data using stunning and insightfulvisualizations, and machine learning toolkits. Starting with introductory recipes on utilizing the Breeze and Spark libraries, get to grips withhow to import data from a host of possible sources and how to pre-process numerical, string, and date data. Next, you’ll get an understanding of concepts that will help you visualize data using the Apache Zeppelin and Bokeh bindings in Scala, enabling exploratory data analysis. iscover how to program quintessential machine learning algorithms using Spark ML library. Work through steps to scale your machine learning models and deploy them into a standalone cluster, EC2, YARN, and Mesos. Finally dip into the powerful options presented by Spark Streaming, and machine learning for streaming data, as well as utilizing Spark GraphX.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Scala Data Analysis Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building the Uber JAR


The first step for deploying our Spark application on a cluster is to bundle it into a single Uber JAR, also known as the assembly JAR. In this recipe, we'll be looking at how to use the SBT assembly plugin to generate the assembly JAR. We'll be using this assembly JAR in subsequent recipes when we run Spark in distributed mode. We could alternatively set dependent JARs using the spark.driver.extraClassPath property (https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/configuration.html#runtime-environment). However, for a large number of dependent JARs, this is inconvenient.

How to do it...

The goal of building the assembly JAR is to build a single, Fat JAR that contains all dependencies and our Spark application. Refer to the following screenshot, which shows the innards of an assembly JAR. You can see not only the application's files in the JAR, but also all the packages and files of the dependent libraries:

The assembly JAR can easily be built in SBT using the SBT assembly plugin...