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Spark Cookbook

Spark Cookbook

By : Yadav
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Spark Cookbook

Spark Cookbook

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By: Yadav

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If you are a data engineer, an application developer, or a data scientist who would like to leverage the power of Apache Spark to get better insights from big data, then this is the book for you.
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Doing classification using logistic regression


In classification, the response variable y has discreet values as opposed to continuous values. Some examples are e-mail (spam/non-spam), transactions (safe/fraudulent), and so on.

The y variable in the following equation can take on two values, 0 or 1:

Here, 0 is referred to as a negative class and 1 means a positive class. Though we are calling them a positive or negative class, it is only for convenience's sake. Algorithms are neutral about this assignment.

Linear regression, though it works well for regression tasks, hits a few limitations for classification tasks. These include:

  • The fitting process is very susceptible to outliers

  • There is no guarantee that the hypothesis function h(x) will fit in the range 0 (negative class) to 1 (positive class)

Logistic regression guarantees that h(x) will fit between 0 and 1. Though logistic regression has the word regression in it, it is more of a misnomer and it is very much a classification algorithm:

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