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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

By : Michal Malohlava, Alex Tellez, Max Pumperla
Book Image

Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

By: Michal Malohlava, Alex Tellez, Max Pumperla

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)
3
Ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification

Spark start and data load

Now it's time to fire up a Spark cluster which will give us all the functionality of Spark while simultaneously allowing us to use H2O algorithms and visualize our data. As always, we must download Spark 2.1 distribution from http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html and declare the execution environment beforehand. For example, if you download spark-2.1.1-bin-hadoop2.6.tgz from the Spark download page, you can prepare the environment in the following way:

tar -xvf spark-2.1.1-bin-hadoop2.6.tgz 
export SPARK_HOME="$(pwd)/spark-2.1.1-bin-hadoop2.6 

When the environment is ready, we can start the interactive Spark shell with Sparkling Water packages and this book package:

export SPARKLING_WATER_VERSION="2.1.12"
export SPARK_PACKAGES=\
"ai.h2o:sparkling-water-core_2.11:${SPARKLING_WATER_VERSION},\
ai.h2o:sparkling-water-repl_2.11:$...