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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

By : Rajdeep Dua, Manpreet Singh Ghotra
Book Image

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)

Types of dimensionality reduction

MLlib provides two models for dimensionality reduction; these models are closely related to each other. These models are Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).

Principal components analysis

PCA operates on a data matrix X, and seeks to extract a set of k principal components from X. The principal components are each uncorrelated to each other, and are computed such that the first principal component accounts for the largest variation in the input data. Each subsequent principal component is, in turn, computed such that it accounts for the largest variation, provided that it is independent of the principal components computed so far.

In this way, the k principal components returned are guaranteed...