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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

Creating scatter plots with Bokeh-Scala


In this section, we'll take a brief look at the most popular visualizing framework in Python, called Bokeh, and use its (also fast-evolving) Scala bindings to the framework. Breeze also has a visualization API called breeze-viz, which is built on JFreeChart. Bokeh is backed by a JavaScript visualization library, called BokehJS. The Scala bindings library bokeh-scala not only gives an easier way to construct glyphs (lines, circles, and so on) out of Scala objects, but also translates glyphs into a format that is understandable by the BokehJS JavaScript components. The various terms in Bokeh actually mean the following:

  • Glyph: All geometric shapes that we can think of--circles, squares, lines, and so on - are glyphs. This is just the UI representation and doesn't hold any data. All the properties related to this object just help us modify the UI properties: color, x, y, width and so on.

  • Plot: A plot is like a canvas on which we arrange various objects...