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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

Identifying the target variable of the logistic regression model


A logistic regression model operates as a classification algorithm aiming to predict a binary outcome. In this section, we will specify the best column within the dataset to predict whether an incoming call to the operator is related to fire or non-fire incidents.

Getting ready

We will visualize many of the data points in this section, which will require the following:

  1. Ensuring that matplotlib is installed by executing pip install matplotlib at the command line.
  2. Running import matplotlib.pyplot as plt as well as ensuring graphs are viewed within cells by running %matplotlib inline.

Additionally, there will be some manipulation of functions within pyspark.sql that requires importing functions as F.

How to do it...

This section will walk through visualizing the data from the San Francisco Fire Department.

  1. Execute the following script to get a cursory identification of the unique values in the Call Type Group column:
df.select('Call Type...