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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

Introduction


MLlib is the machine learning (ML) library that is provided with Apache Spark, the in-memory, cluster-based, open source data processing system. In this chapter, I will examine the functionality of algorithms provided within the MLlib library in terms of areas of machine learning tasks such as classification, recommendation, and neural processing. For each algorithm, we'll provide working examples that tackle real problems. We will take a step-by-step approach in describing how the following algorithms can be used, and what they are capable of doing.

Big data and machine learning takes place in three steps-collect, analyze and predict. For this purpose, the Spark ecosystem supports a wide range of workloads, including batch applications, iterative algorithms, interactive queries, and stream processing. The Spark MLlib component offers a variety of ML algorithms which are scalable.