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Scala Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Arun Manivannan
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Scala Data Analysis Cookbook

By: Arun Manivannan

Overview of this book

This book will introduce you to the most popular Scala tools, libraries, and frameworks through practical recipes around loading, manipulating, and preparing your data. It will also help you explore and make sense of your data using stunning and insightfulvisualizations, and machine learning toolkits. Starting with introductory recipes on utilizing the Breeze and Spark libraries, get to grips withhow to import data from a host of possible sources and how to pre-process numerical, string, and date data. Next, you’ll get an understanding of concepts that will help you visualize data using the Apache Zeppelin and Bokeh bindings in Scala, enabling exploratory data analysis. iscover how to program quintessential machine learning algorithms using Spark ML library. Work through steps to scale your machine learning models and deploy them into a standalone cluster, EC2, YARN, and Mesos. Finally dip into the powerful options presented by Spark Streaming, and machine learning for streaming data, as well as utilizing Spark GraphX.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Scala Data Analysis Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a DataFrame from CSV


In this recipe, we'll look at how to create a new DataFrame from a delimiter-separated values file.

How to do it...

This recipe involves four steps:

  1. Add the spark-csv support to our project.

  2. Create a Spark Config object that gives information on the environment that we are running Spark in.

  3. Create a Spark context that serves as an entry point into Spark. Then, we proceed to create an SQLContext from the Spark context.

  4. Load the CSV using the SQLContext.

  5. CSV support isn't first-class in Spark, but it is available through an external library from Databricks. So, let's go ahead and add that to our build.sbt.

    After adding the spark-csv dependency, our complete build.sbt looks like this:

    organization := "com.packt"
    
    name := "chapter1-spark-csv"
    
    scalaVersion := "2.10.4"
    
    val sparkVersion...