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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

Loading images on to PySpark dataframes


We are now ready to begin importing our images into our notebook for classification.

Getting ready

We will be using several libraries and their dependencies in this section, which will require us to install the following packages through pip install on the terminal within Ubuntu Desktop:

pip install tensorflow==1.4.1
pip install keras==2.1.5
pip install sparkdl
pip install tensorframes
pip install kafka
pip install py4j
pip install tensorflowonspark
pip install jieba

How to do it...

The following steps will demonstrate how to decode images into a Spark dataframe:

  1. Initiate a spark session, using the following script:
spark = SparkSession.builder \
      .master("local") \
      .appName("ImageClassification") \
      .config("spark.executor.memory", "6gb") \
      .getOrCreate()
  1. Import the following libraries from PySpark to create dataframes, using the following script:
import pyspark.sql.functions as f
import sparkdl as dl
  1. Execute the following script to create...