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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 the San Francisco fire department calls dataset


The City of San Francisco does a great job of collecting fire department calls for services across their area. As it states on their website, each record includes the call number, incident number, address, unit identifier, call type, and disposition. The official website containing San Francisco fire department call data can be found at the following link:

https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Fire-Department-Calls-for-Service/nuek-vuh3

There is some general information regarding the dataset with regards to the number of columns and rows, seen in the following screenshot:

This current dataset, updated on 3/26/2018, has roughly 4.61 M rows and 34 columns. 

Getting ready

The dataset is available in a .csv file and can be downloaded locally on to your machine, where it can then be imported into Spark.

How to do it...

This section will walk through the steps to download and import the .csv file to our Jupyter notebook.

  1. Download the dataset from...