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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

Manipulating columns in a PySpark dataframe


The dataframe is almost complete; however, there is one issue that requires addressing before building the neural network. Rather than keeping the gender value as a string, it is better to convert the value to a numeric integer for calculation purposes, which will become more evident as this chapter progresses.

Getting ready

This section will require  importing the following:

  • from pyspark.sql import functions

How to do it...

This section walks through the steps for the string conversion to a numeric value in the dataframe:

  • Female --> 0 
  • Male --> 1
  1. Convert a column value inside of a dataframe requires importing functions:
from pyspark.sql import functions
  1. Next, modify the gender column to a numeric value using the following script:
df = df.withColumn('gender',functions.when(df['gender']=='Female',0).otherwise(1))
  1. Finally, reorder the columns so that gender is the last column in the dataframe using the following script:
df = df.select('height', 'weight...