Often, the process flow of many big data projects is iterative, which means a lot of back-and-forth testing new ideas, new features to include, tweaking various hyper-parameters, and so on, with a fail fast attitude. The end result of these projects is usually a model that can answer a question being posed. Notice that we didn't say accurately answer a question being posed! One pitfall of many data scientists these days is their inability to generalize a model for new data, meaning that they have overfit their data so that the model provides poor results when given new data. Accuracy is extremely task-dependent and is usually dictated by the business needs with some sensitivity analysis being done to weigh the cost-benefits of the model outcomes. However, there are a few standard accuracy measures that we will go over throughout this book so that you can compare various models to see how changes to the model impact the result.
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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x
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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x
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Overview of this book
The purpose of machine learning is to build systems that learn from data. Being able to understand trends and patterns in complex data is critical to success; it is one of the key strategies to unlock growth in the challenging contemporary marketplace today. With the meteoric rise of machine learning, developers are now keen on finding out how can they make their Spark applications smarter.
This book gives you access to transform data into actionable knowledge. The book commences by defining machine learning primitives by the MLlib and H2O libraries. You will learn how to use Binary classification to detect the Higgs Boson particle in the huge amount of data produced by CERN particle collider and classify daily health activities using ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification.
Next, you will solve a typical regression problem involving flight delay predictions and write sophisticated Spark pipelines. You will analyze Twitter data with help of the doc2vec algorithm and K-means clustering. Finally, you will build different pattern mining models using MLlib, perform complex manipulation of DataFrames using Spark and Spark SQL, and deploy your app in a Spark streaming environment.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Large-Scale Machine Learning and Spark
Detecting Dark Matter - The Higgs-Boson Particle
Ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification
Predicting Movie Reviews Using NLP and Spark Streaming
Word2vec for Prediction and Clustering
Extracting Patterns from Clickstream Data
Graph Analytics with GraphX
Lending Club Loan Prediction
