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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

By : Rajdeep Dua, Manpreet Singh Ghotra
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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

By: Rajdeep Dua, Manpreet Singh Ghotra

Overview of this book

This book will teach you about popular machine learning algorithms and their implementation. You will learn how various machine learning concepts are implemented in the context of Spark ML. You will start by installing Spark in a single and multinode cluster. Next you'll see how to execute Scala and Python based programs for Spark ML. Then we will take a few datasets and go deeper into clustering, classification, and regression. Toward the end, we will also cover text processing using Spark ML. Once you have learned the concepts, they can be applied to implement algorithms in either green-field implementations or to migrate existing systems to this new platform. You can migrate from Mahout or Scikit to use Spark ML. By the end of this book, you will acquire the skills to leverage Spark's features to create your own scalable machine learning applications and power a modern data-driven business.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Advanced Text Processing with Spark

In Chapter 4, Obtaining, Processing, and Preparing Data with Spark, we covered various topics related to feature extraction and data processing, including the basics of extracting features from text data. In this chapter, we will introduce more advanced text processing techniques available in Spark ML to work with large-scale text datasets.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Work through detailed examples that illustrate data processing, feature extraction, and the modeling pipeline, as they relate to text data
  • Evaluate the similarity between two documents based on the words in the documents
  • Use the extracted text features as inputs for a classification model
  • Cover a recent development in natural language processing to model words themselves as vectors and illustrate the use of Spark's Word2Vec model to evaluate the similarity between two words, based on their meaning

We will look...