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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x

By : Michal Malohlava, Alex Tellez, Max Pumperla
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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)
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Ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification

Ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification

Our modern world is already interconnected with many devices for collecting data about human behavior - for example, our cell phones are small spies in our pockets tracking number of steps, route, or our eating habits. Even the watches that we wear now can track everything from the number of steps we take to our heart rate at any given moment in time.

In all these situations, the gadgets try to guess what the user is doing based on collected data to provide reports of the user's activities through the day. From a machine learning perspective, the task can be viewed as a classification problem: detecting patterns in collected data and assigning the right activity category to them (that is, swimming, running, sleeping). But importantly, it is still supervised problem - that means to train a model, we need to provide observations...