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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

Visualizing word counts in the dataset


A picture is worth a thousand words and this section will set out to prove that. Unfortunately, Spark does not have any inherent plotting capabilities as of version 2.2. In order to plot values in a dataframe, we must convert to pandas

Getting ready

This section will require importing matplotlib for plotting:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

How to do it...

This section walks through the steps to convert the Spark dataframe into a visualization that can be seen in the Jupyter notebook. 

  1. Convert Spark dataframe to a pandas dataframe using the following script:
df_plot = df.select('id', 'word_count').toPandas()
  1. Plot the dataframe using the following script:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

df_plot.set_index('id', inplace=True)
df_plot.plot(kind='bar', figsize=(16, 6))
plt.ylabel('Word Count')
plt.title('Word Count distribution')
plt.show()

How it works...

This section explains how the Spark dataframe is converted to pandas...