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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

Winning a Kaggle competition with Apache SparkML


Winning a Kaggle competition is an art by itself, but we just want to show you how the Apache SparkML tooling can be used efficiently to do so.

We'll use an archived competition for this offered by BOSCH, a German multinational engineering, and electronics company, on production line performance data. Details for the competition data can be found at https://www.kaggle.com/c/bosch-production-line-performance/data.

Data preparation

The challenge data comes in three ZIP packages but we only use two of them. One contains categorical data, one contains continuous data, and the last one contains timestamps of measurements, which we will ignore for now.

If you extract the data, you'll get three large CSV files. So the first thing that we want to do is re-encode them into parquet in order to be more space-efficient:

def convert(filePrefix : String) = {
   val basePath = "yourBasePath"
   var df = spark
              .read
              .option("header...