Spark and GraphX do not provide any built-in functionality for data visualization, since their focus is on data processing. However, pictures are worth than thousands of numbers when it comes to data analysis. In the following sections, we will build a Spark application for visualizing and analyzing the connectedness of graphs. We will rely on the third-party library called GraphStream for drawing networks, and BreezeViz for plotting structural properties of graphs, such as degree distribution. These libraries are not perfect and have limitations but they are relatively stable and simple to use. So, we will use them for exploring the graph examples that are used in this chapter.
Apache Spark Graph Processing
Apache Spark Graph Processing
Overview of this book
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Spark Graph Processing
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Spark and GraphX
Building and Exploring Graphs
Graph Analysis and Visualization
Transforming and Shaping Up Graphs to Your Needs
Creating Custom Graph Aggregation Operators
Iterative Graph-Parallel Processing with Pregel
Learning Graph Structures
References
Index
Customer Reviews