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Scala Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Arun Manivannan
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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

Running the Spark Standalone cluster on EC2


The easiest way to create a Spark cluster and run our Spark jobs in a truly distributed mode is Amazon EC2 instances. The ec2 folder inside the Spark installation directory wraps all the scripts and libraries that we need to create a cluster. Let's quickly go through the steps that entail the creation of our first distributed cluster.

This recipe assumes that you have a basic understanding of the Amazon EC2 ecosystem, specifically how to spawn a new EC2 instance.

How to do it...

We'll have to ensure that we have the access key and the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) files for AWS before proceeding with the steps. In fact, we are required to have these before launching any EC2 instance if we intend to log in to the machines.

Creating the AccessKey and pem file

Instructions for creating a key pair and the pem key are available at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html. Anyway, the following are the relevant screenshots.

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