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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

Configuring programming environment


In this section, we describe how to configure our programming environment so that we can interoperate with Spark, H2O, and Adam. Note that using H2O on a laptop or desktop is quite resource intensive. Therefore, make sure that your laptop has at least 16 GB of RAM and enough storage.

Anyway, I am going to make this project a Maven project on Eclipse. However, you can try to define the same dependencies in SBT too. Let us define the properties tag on a pom.xml file for a Maven-friendly project:

<properties>
    <spark.version>2.2.1</spark.version>
    <scala.version>2.11.12</scala.version>
    <h2o.version>3.16.0.2</h2o.version>
    <sparklingwater.version>2.2.6</sparklingwater.version>
    <adam.version>0.23.0</adam.version>
</properties>

Then we can the latest version of the Spark 2.2.1 version (any 2.x version or even higher should work fine):

<dependency>
    <groupId>org...