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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

Displaying similar words with Spark using Word2Vec


In this recipe, we will explore Word2Vec, which is Spark's tool for assessing word similarity. The Word2Vec algorithm is inspired by the distributional hypothesis in general linguistics. At the core, what it tries to say is that the tokens which occur in the same context (that is, distance from the target) tend to support the same primitive concept/meaning.

The Word2Vec algorithm was invented by a team of researchers at Google. Please refer to a white paper mentioned in the There's more... section of this recipe which describes Word2Vec in more detail.

How to do it...

  1. Start a new project in IntelliJ or in an IDE of your choice. Make sure the necessary JAR files are included.
  1. The package statement for the recipe is as follows:
package spark.ml.cookbook.chapter12
  1. Import the necessary packages for Scala and Spark:
import org.apache.log4j.{Level, Logger}
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.{RegexTokenizer, StopWordsRemover, Word2Vec}
import org.apache...