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Big Data Analytics with Java

By : RAJAT MEHTA
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Big Data Analytics with Java

By: RAJAT MEHTA

Overview of this book

This book covers case studies such as sentiment analysis on a tweet dataset, recommendations on a movielens dataset, customer segmentation on an ecommerce dataset, and graph analysis on actual flights dataset. This book is an end-to-end guide to implement analytics on big data with Java. Java is the de facto language for major big data environments, including Hadoop. This book will teach you how to perform analytics on big data with production-friendly Java. This book basically divided into two sections. The first part is an introduction that will help the readers get acquainted with big data environments, whereas the second part will contain a hardcore discussion on all the concepts in analytics on big data. It will take you from data analysis and data visualization to the core concepts and advantages of machine learning, real-life usage of regression and classification using Naïve Bayes, a deep discussion on the concepts of clustering,and a review of simple neural networks on big data using deepLearning4j or plain Java Spark code. This book is a must-have book for Java developers who want to start learning big data analytics and want to use it in the real world.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Big Data Analytics with Java
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Big Data Analytics with Java
8
Ensembling on Big Data
12
Real-Time Analytics on Big Data
Index

Clustering for customer segmentation


Here, we will now build a program that will use the k-means clustering algorithm and will make five clusters from our transactional dataset.

Before we crunch the data to figure out the clusters, we have made a few important assumptions and deductions regarding the data to preprocess it:

  • We are only going to do clustering for the data belonging to the United Kingdom. The reason being, most of the data belongs to the United Kingdom in this dataset.

  • For any missing or null values, we will simply discard that row of data. This is to keep things simple, and also because we have a good amount of data available for analysis. Leaving a few rows should not have much impact.

Let's now start our program. We will first build our boilerplate code to build the SparkSession and Spark configuration:

SparkConf conf = ...
SparkSession session = ...

Next, let's load the data from the file into a dataset:

Dataset<Row> rawData = session.read().csv("data/retail/Online_Retail...