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Big Data Analytics

By : Venkat Ankam
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Big Data Analytics

By: Venkat Ankam

Overview of this book

Big Data Analytics book aims at providing the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Hadoop. All Spark components – Spark Core, Spark SQL, DataFrames, Data sets, Conventional Streaming, Structured Streaming, MLlib, Graphx and Hadoop core components – HDFS, MapReduce and Yarn are explored in greater depth with implementation examples on Spark + Hadoop clusters. It is moving away from MapReduce to Spark. So, advantages of Spark over MapReduce are explained at great depth to reap benefits of in-memory speeds. DataFrames API, Data Sources API and new Data set API are explained for building Big Data analytical applications. Real-time data analytics using Spark Streaming with Apache Kafka and HBase is covered to help building streaming applications. New Structured streaming concept is explained with an IOT (Internet of Things) use case. Machine learning techniques are covered using MLLib, ML Pipelines and SparkR and Graph Analytics are covered with GraphX and GraphFrames components of Spark. Readers will also get an opportunity to get started with web based notebooks such as Jupyter, Apache Zeppelin and data flow tool Apache NiFi to analyze and visualize data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting started with SparkR


Now, let's explore the options to work with SparkR including shell, scripts, RStudio, and Zeppelin.

Note

All programs in this chapter are executed on CDH 5.8 VM. For other environments, file paths might change. But the concepts are the same in any environment.

Installing and configuring R

The following steps will explain how to install and configure R, and the latest version of Spark:

  1. As a first step, we need to install R on all machines in the cluster. The following exercises are tested on CDH 5.7 Quick start VM, which has the CentOS 6.5 operating system. We need to add the latest Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository to the VM, which enables you to install R. EPEL is a community-based repository project from the Fedora team, which provides add-on packages for Red Hat and CentOS. Use the following command to install R on the VM:

    wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch...