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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

Comparing model performance to a baseline score


While it is great that we have a high accuracy score from our model of 91.7 percent, it is also important to compare this to a baseline score. We dig deeper into this concept in this section.

How to do it...

This section walks through the steps to calculate the baseline accuracy.

  1. Execute the following script to retrieve the mean value from the describe() method:
predictionDF.describe('label').show()
  1. Subtract 1- mean value score to calculate baseline accuracy.

How it works...

This section explains the concept behind the baseline accuracy and how we can use it to understand the effectiveness of our model.

  1. What if every chat conversation was flagged for do_not_escalate or vice versa. Would we have a baseline accuracy higher than 91.7 percent? The easiest way to figure this out is to run the describe() method on the label column from predictionDF using the following script: predictionDF.describe('label').show()
  2. The output of the script can be seen in the...