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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
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Applying logistic regression on bank marketing data


Logistic regression is a classification algorithm. It is used to predict a binary outcome (0/1, Yes/No, True/False) from the set of independent variables. It is a special case of linear regression where the outcome variable is categorical. The log of odds is the dependent variables, that is, it predicts the probability of occurrence of an event by fitting data to a logit function. Logistic regression is also termed as linear classification model. The link function used in the logistic regression is the logic link 1/(1+exp(-wTx)). The related loss function for logistic regression is the logistic loss, that is, log(1+exp(-ywTx)). Here y is the actual target variable (either 1 for the positive class or -1 for the negative class).

This recipe shows how to apply the logistic regression algorithm available in the Spark MLlib package on Bank Marketing Data. The code is written in Scala.