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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

Analyzing flight data using GraphX


Let's analyze flight data by representing the airports as vertices and routes as edges. Let's do some basic graph analytics to find out departures and arrivals and also analyze the data with the Pregel API to find out the cheapest fares. Download the flight data from the following location:

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time

The steps to analyze the data are as follows:

  1. Select OriginAirportID, Origin, DestAirportID, Dest, and Distance then click Download. Copy the ZIP file onto the cluster, unzip it, and then copy the contents to HDFS:

    unzip 355968671_T_ONTIME.zip
    
    hadoop fs -put 355968671_T_ONTIME.csv
    
  2. Get into the Scala shell using the spark-shell command and then import all dependencies, as follows:

    scala> import org.apache.spark.graphx._
    scala> import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
    
  3. Define a Scala case class for the flight schema corresponding to the CSV data file:

    scala> case class Flight(org_id...