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Scala Machine Learning Projects

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Scala Machine Learning Projects

Overview of this book

Machine learning has had a huge impact on academia and industry by turning data into actionable information. Scala has seen a steady rise in adoption over the past few years, especially in the fields of data science and analytics. This book is for data scientists, data engineers, and deep learning enthusiasts who have a background in complex numerical computing and want to know more hands-on machine learning application development. If you're well versed in machine learning concepts and want to expand your knowledge by delving into the practical implementation of these concepts using the power of Scala, then this book is what you need! Through 11 end-to-end projects, you will be acquainted with popular machine learning libraries such as Spark ML, H2O, DeepLearning4j, and MXNet. At the end, you will be able to use numerical computing and functional programming to carry out complex numerical tasks to develop, build, and deploy research or commercial projects in a production-ready environment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Large-scale image classification using CNN


In this section, we will show a step-by-step example of developing a real-life ML project for image classification. However, we need to know the problem description first, to learn what sort of image classification needs to be done. Moreover, learning about the dataset is a mandate before getting started.

Problem description

Nowadays, food selfies and photo-centric social storytelling are becoming social trends. Food lovers willingly upload an enormous amount of selfies taken with food and a picture of the restaurant to social media and respective websites. And, of course, they also provide a written review that can significantly boost the popularity of the restaurant:

Figure 6: Mining some insights about business from Yelp dataset

For example, millions of unique visitors visit Yelp and have written more than 135 million reviews. There are lots of photos and lots of users who are uploading photos. Business owners can post photos and message their customers...