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Spark Cookbook

Spark Cookbook

By : Yadav
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Spark Cookbook

Spark Cookbook

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By: Yadav

Overview of this book

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 decision trees


Decision trees are the most intuitive among machine learning algorithms. We use decision trees in daily life all the time.

Decision tree algorithms have a lot of useful features:

  • Easy to understand and interpret

  • Work with both categorical and continuous features

  • Work with missing features

  • Do not require feature scaling

Decision tree algorithms work in an upside-down order in which an expression containing a feature is evaluated at every level and that splits the dataset into two categories. We'll help you understand this with the simple example of a dumb charade, which most of us played in college. I guessed an animal and asked my coworker ask me questions to work out my choice. Here's how her questioning went:

Q1: Is it a big animal?

A: Yes

Q2: Does this animal live more than 40 years?

A: Yes

Q3: Is this animal an elephant?

A: Yes

This is an obviously oversimplified case in which she knew I had postulated an elephant (what else would you guess in a Big Data...

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