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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

Recommendation systems and their types


Before we dig deeper into the concepts of the recommendation system, let's see two real-world examples of recommendation engines that we might be using on a daily basis. The examples are shown in the following screenshots. The first screenshot is from Amazon.com, where we can see a section called Customers who bought this also bought, and the second screenshot will be from YouTube.com, where we are seeing a section called Recommended:

As you can see in the screenshot which we have taken from http://www.amazon.com, it shows a list of books on Java. So if you search for keyword Core Java on Amazon.com for buying books, you will get a list books on Core Java. If you select one of those core java books now and click on it, you will be directed to the page where you will get the full description about the book: its price, author, reviews, and so on. It is here, at the bottom of this section you will get a link as shown above where it is mentioned Customers...