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Spark for Data Science

By : Srinivas Duvvuri, Bikramaditya Singhal
Book Image

Spark for Data Science

By: Srinivas Duvvuri, Bikramaditya Singhal

Overview of this book

This is the era of Big Data. The words ‘Big Data’ implies big innovation and enables a competitive advantage for businesses. Apache Spark was designed to perform Big Data analytics at scale, and so Spark is equipped with the necessary algorithms and supports multiple programming languages. Whether you are a technologist, a data scientist, or a beginner to Big Data analytics, this book will provide you with all the skills necessary to perform statistical data analysis, data visualization, predictive modeling, and build scalable data products or solutions using Python, Scala, and R. With ample case studies and real-world examples, Spark for Data Science will help you ensure the successful execution of your data science projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Spark for Data Science
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Communicating the results to business users


In real-life scenarios, it is mostly the case that you have to keep communicating with the business intermittently. You might have to build several models before concluding on a final production-ready model and communicate the results to the business.

An implementable model does not always depend on accuracy; you might have to bring in other measures such as sensitivity, specificity, or an ROC curve, and also represent your results through visuals such as a Gain/Lift chart or an output of a K-S test with statistical significance. Note that these techniques require business users' input. This input often guides the way you build the models or set thresholds. Let us look at a few examples to better understand how it works:

  • If a regressor predicts the probability of an event occurring, then blindly setting the threshold to 0.5 and assuming anything above 0.5 is 1 and less than 0.5 is 0 may not be the best way! You may use an ROC curve and take a rather...