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Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By : Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei
Book Image

Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By: Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an in-memory, cluster-based data processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as big data processing, analytics, machine learning, and more. With this Learning Path, you can take your knowledge of Apache Spark to the next level by learning how to expand Spark's functionality and building your own data flow and machine learning programs on this platform. You will work with the different modules in Apache Spark, such as interactive querying with Spark SQL, using DataFrames and datasets, implementing streaming analytics with Spark Streaming, and applying machine learning and deep learning techniques on Spark using MLlib and various external tools. By the end of this elaborately designed Learning Path, you will have all the knowledge you need to master Apache Spark, and build your own big data processing and analytics pipeline quickly and without any hassle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Mastering Apache Spark 2.x by Romeo Kienzler • Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics by Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla • Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook by Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen MeiCookbook
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Common operations with the new Dataset API


In this recipe, we cover the Dataset API, which is the way forward for data wrangling in Spark 2.0 and beyond. In this chapter ,we cover some of the common, repetitive operations that are required to work with these new API sets. Additionally, we demonstrate the query plan generated by the Spark SQL Catalyst optimizer.

How to do it...

  1. Start a new project in IntelliJ or in an IDE of your choice. Make sure that the necessary JAR files are included.
  1. We will use a JSON data file named cars.json, which has been created for this example:
name,city
Bears,Chicago
Packers,Green Bay
Lions,Detroit
Vikings,Minnesota
  1. Set up the package location where the program will reside:
package spark.ml.cookbook.chapter4
  1. Import the necessary packages for the Spark session to get access to the cluster and log4j.Logger to reduce the amount of output produced by Spark:
import org.apache.spark.ml.Pipeline
import org.apache.spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegression
import org.apache...