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Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints

By : Alex Liu
Book Image

Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints

By: Alex Liu

Overview of this book

There's a reason why Apache Spark has become one of the most popular tools in Machine Learning – its ability to handle huge datasets at an impressive speed means you can be much more responsive to the data at your disposal. This book shows you Spark at its very best, demonstrating how to connect it with R and unlock maximum value not only from the tool but also from your data. Packed with a range of project "blueprints" that demonstrate some of the most interesting challenges that Spark can help you tackle, you'll find out how to use Spark notebooks and access, clean, and join different datasets before putting your knowledge into practice with some real-world projects, in which you will see how Spark Machine Learning can help you with everything from fraud detection to analyzing customer attrition. You'll also find out how to build a recommendation engine using Spark's parallel computing powers.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Model deployment


One of the main purposes of this project is to produce good predictive models for the telco company to forecast Call Center calls on a daily basis and also to understand or even reduce subscriber churn, besides producing insights for some of the clients of this telco company. As discussed earlier, MLlib supports model export to Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML). Therefore, we export some developed models to PMML for this project so that the telco company can take them to integrate with their existing analytical and decision-making platforms.

In practice, the users for this project, executives of the telco company, are more interested in rule-based decision making to use some of our insights and also in score-based decision making to impact subscriber churns.

Specifically, as for this project, the client is interested in applying our results to (1) decide when an alert may be sent out if the number of service requests as forecasted will be very high, for which rules should...