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Mastering Apache Spark 2.x - Second Edition

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Mastering Apache Spark 2.x - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an in-memory, cluster-based Big Data processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as graph processing, machine learning, stream processing, and more. This book will take your knowledge of Apache Spark to the next level by teaching you how to expand Spark’s functionality and build your data flows and machine/deep learning programs on top of the platform. The book starts with a quick overview of the Apache Spark ecosystem, and introduces you to the new features and capabilities in Apache Spark 2.x. You will then work with the different modules in Apache Spark such as interactive querying with Spark SQL, using DataFrames and DataSets effectively, streaming analytics with Spark Streaming, and performing machine learning and deep learning on Spark using MLlib and external tools such as H20 and Deeplearning4j. The book also contains chapters on efficient graph processing, memory management and using Apache Spark on the cloud. By the end of this book, you will have all the necessary information to master Apache Spark, and use it efficiently for Big Data processing and analytics.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
10
Deep Learning on Apache Spark with DeepLearning4j and H2O

CrossValidation and hyperparameter tuning


We will be looking at one example each of CrossValidation and hyperparameter tuning. Let's take a look at CrossValidation.

CrossValidation

As stated before, we've used the default parameters of the machine learning algorithm and we don't know if they are a good choice. In addition, instead of simply splitting your data into training and testing, or training, testing, and validation sets, CrossValidation might be a better choice because it makes sure that eventually all the data is seen by the machine learning algorithm.

Note

CrossValidation basically splits your complete available training data into a number of k folds. This parameter k can be specified. Then, the whole Pipeline is run once for every fold and one machine learning model is trained for each fold. Finally, the different machine learning models obtained are joined. This is done by a voting scheme for classifiers or by averaging for regression.

The following figure illustrates ten-fold CrossValidation...