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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

By : Michal Malohlava, Alex Tellez, Max Pumperla
Book Image

Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

By: Michal Malohlava, Alex Tellez, Max Pumperla

Overview of this book

The purpose of machine learning is to build systems that learn from data. Being able to understand trends and patterns in complex data is critical to success; it is one of the key strategies to unlock growth in the challenging contemporary marketplace today. With the meteoric rise of machine learning, developers are now keen on finding out how can they make their Spark applications smarter. This book gives you access to transform data into actionable knowledge. The book commences by defining machine learning primitives by the MLlib and H2O libraries. You will learn how to use Binary classification to detect the Higgs Boson particle in the huge amount of data produced by CERN particle collider and classify daily health activities using ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification. Next, you will solve a typical regression problem involving flight delay predictions and write sophisticated Spark pipelines. You will analyze Twitter data with help of the doc2vec algorithm and K-means clustering. Finally, you will build different pattern mining models using MLlib, perform complex manipulation of DataFrames using Spark and Spark SQL, and deploy your app in a Spark streaming environment.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification

Data load

As usual, the first step involves the loading of data into memory. At this point, we can decide to use Spark or H2O data-loading capabilities. Since data is stored in the CSV file format, we will use the H2O parser to give us a quick visual insight into the data:

val DATASET_DIR = s"${sys.env.get("DATADIR").getOrElse("data")}"
val DATASETS = Array("LoanStats3a.CSV", "LoanStats3b.CSV")
import java.net.URI

import water.fvec.H2OFrame
val loanDataHf = new H2OFrame(DATASETS.map(name => URI.create(s"${DATASET_DIR}/${name}")):_*)

The loaded dataset can be directly explored in the H2O Flow UI. We can directly verify the number of rows, columns, and size of data stored in memory: