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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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Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with Spark ML pipelines


Spark MLlib's goal is to make practical ML scalable and easy. Similar to Spark Core, MLlib provides APIs in three languages that is, Python, Scala, and Java-with example code which will ease the learning curve for users coming from different backgrounds. The pipeline API in MLlib provides a uniform set of high-level APIs built on top of DataFrames that helps users create and tune practical ML pipelines. This API is under a new package with name spark.ml.

MLlib standardizes APIs for machine learning algorithms to make it easier to combine multiple algorithms into a single pipeline or workflow. Let's see the key terms introduced by the pipeline API:

  • DataFrame: The ML API uses DataFrame from Spark SQL as an ML dataset, which can hold a variety of data types. For example, a DataFrame could have different columns storing text, feature vectors, true labels and predictions.

  • Transformer: A transformer is an algorithm which can transform one DataFrame into another DataFrame...