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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

Performing exploratory analysis and visualization


In situations where the goal is to predict a variable such as price, it helps to visualize the data and figure out how the dependent variable is being influenced by other variables. The exploratory analysis gives a lot of insight which is not readily available by looking at the data. This section of the chapter will describe how to visualize and draw insights from big data.

Getting ready

  • The head of the dataframe can be printed using the dataframe.head() function which produces an output, as shown in the following screenshot:
  • Similarly, the tail of the dataframe can be printed using the dataframe.tail() function, which produces an output, as shown in the following screenshot:

  • The dataframe.describe() function is used to obtain some basic statistics such as the maximum, minimum, and mean values under each column. This is illustrated in the following screenshot:

dataframe.describe() function output

  • As you can observe, the dataset has 21,613 records...