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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
Book Image

Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Downloading MovieLens datasets


There is a great research lab center that began in 1992 in Minneapolis, MN called GroupLens, which focuses on recommendation engines and has graciously put together millions of rows of data over several years from the MovieLens website. We will use its dataset as our data source for training our recommendation engine model.

Getting ready

The MovieLens dataset is housed and maintained by GroupLens on the following website:

https://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/.

It is important to note that the dataset we will use will come directly from their website and not from a third-party intermediary or repository. Additionally, there are two different datasets that are available for us to query:

  • Recommended for new research
  • Recommended for education and development

The purpose of using this dataset is purely for educational purposes, so we will download the data from the education and development section of the website. The educational data still contains a significant number...