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Big Data Analytics

By : Venkat Ankam
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Big Data Analytics

By: Venkat Ankam

Overview of this book

Big Data Analytics book aims at providing the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Hadoop. All Spark components – Spark Core, Spark SQL, DataFrames, Data sets, Conventional Streaming, Structured Streaming, MLlib, Graphx and Hadoop core components – HDFS, MapReduce and Yarn are explored in greater depth with implementation examples on Spark + Hadoop clusters. It is moving away from MapReduce to Spark. So, advantages of Spark over MapReduce are explained at great depth to reap benefits of in-memory speeds. DataFrames API, Data Sources API and new Data set API are explained for building Big Data analytical applications. Real-time data analytics using Spark Streaming with Apache Kafka and HBase is covered to help building streaming applications. New Structured streaming concept is explained with an IOT (Internet of Things) use case. Machine learning techniques are covered using MLLib, ML Pipelines and SparkR and Graph Analytics are covered with GraphX and GraphFrames components of Spark. Readers will also get an opportunity to get started with web based notebooks such as Jupyter, Apache Zeppelin and data flow tool Apache NiFi to analyze and visualize data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using SparkR with RStudio


Let's learn how to use RStudio with SparkR in this section. RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) interface for R that provides developer productivity. It is open source and available on multiple platforms including Linux, macOS, and Windows with optional commercial support. It has a familiar R shell, a syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, tools for plotting, history, debugging, and workspace management. It has a desktop and server version for running from a desktop or centrally from a server. Let's use RStudio Server, which provides a web browser to do analytics, using the following steps:

  1. Let's install RStudio Server using the following commands:

    wget https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-rhel-0.99.903-x86_64.rpm
    sudo yum -y install --nogpgcheck rstudio-server-rhel-0.99.903-x86_64.rpm
    
  2. Open the Firefox browser in the VM and open the page using http://localhost:8787/auth-sign-in. Use cloudera/cloudera credentials...