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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

Normalizing the input data for the neural network


Neural networks work more efficiently when the inputs are normalized. This minimizes the magnitude of a particular input affecting the overall outcome over other potential inputs that have lower values of magnitude. This section will normalize the height and weight inputs of the current individuals.

Getting ready

The normalization of input values requires obtaining the mean and standard deviation of those values for the final calculation.

How to do it...

This section walks through the steps to normalize the height and weight.

  1. Slice the array into inputs and outputs using the following script:
X = data_array[:,:2]
y = data_array[:,2]
  1. The mean and the standard deviation can be calculated across the 29 individuals using the following script:
x_mean = X.mean(axis=0)
x_std = X.std(axis=0)

  1. Create a normalization function to normalize X using the following script:
 def normalize(X):
     x_mean = X.mean(axis=0)
     x_std = X.std(axis=0)
     X = (X - X...