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Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By : Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei
Book Image

Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By: Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an in-memory, cluster-based data processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as big data processing, analytics, machine learning, and more. With this Learning Path, you can take your knowledge of Apache Spark to the next level by learning how to expand Spark's functionality and building your own data flow and machine learning programs on this platform. You will work with the different modules in Apache Spark, such as interactive querying with Spark SQL, using DataFrames and datasets, implementing streaming analytics with Spark Streaming, and applying machine learning and deep learning techniques on Spark using MLlib and various external tools. By the end of this elaborately designed Learning Path, you will have all the knowledge you need to master Apache Spark, and build your own big data processing and analytics pipeline quickly and without any hassle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Mastering Apache Spark 2.x by Romeo Kienzler • Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics by Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla • Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook by Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen MeiCookbook
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Normalizing data with Spark


In this recipe, we demonstrate normalizing (scaling) the data prior to importing the data into an ML algorithm. There are a good number of ML algorithms such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) that work better with scaled input vectors rather than with the raw values.

How to do it...

  1. Go to the UCI Machine Learning Repository and download the http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/wine/wine.data file.
  1. Start a new project in IntelliJ or in an IDE of your choice. Make sure that the necessary JAR files are included.
  1. Set up the package location where the program will reside:
package spark.ml.cookbook.chapter4
  1. Import the necessary packages for the Spark session to gain access to the cluster and log4j.Logger to reduce the amount of output produced by Spark:
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.MinMaxScaler
  1. Define a method to parse wine data into a tuple:
def parseWine(str...