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Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By : Padma Priya Chitturi
Book Image

Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By: Padma Priya Chitturi

Overview of this book

Spark has emerged as the most promising big data analytics engine for data science professionals. The true power and value of Apache Spark lies in its ability to execute data science tasks with speed and accuracy. Spark’s selling point is that it combines ETL, batch analytics, real-time stream analysis, machine learning, graph processing, and visualizations. It lets you tackle the complexities that come with raw unstructured data sets with ease. This guide will get you comfortable and confident performing data science tasks with Spark. You will learn about implementations including distributed deep learning, numerical computing, and scalable machine learning. You will be shown effective solutions to problematic concepts in data science using Spark’s data science libraries such as MLLib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and more. These simple and efficient recipes will show you how to implement algorithms and optimize your work.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Interactive analysis with the SparkR shell


The entry point into SparkR is the SparkContext which connects the R program to a Spark Cluster. When working with the SparkR shell, SQLContext and SparkContext are already available. SparkR's shell provides a simple way to learn the API, as well as a powerful tool to analyze data interactively.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark Cluster either in pseudo distributed mode or in one of the distributed modes, that is, standalone, YARN, or Mesos.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we’ll see how to start SparkR interactive shell using Spark 1.6.0:

  1. Start the SparkR shell by running the following in the SparkR package directory:

          /bigdata/spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.6$ ./bin/sparkR --master
          spark://192.168.0.118:7077
      R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) -- "Wooden Christmas-Tree"
      Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
      Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
      R is free software and comes with...