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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)
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Ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification

The dataset

The Large Movie Review Database, originally published in the paper, Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis, by Andrew L. Maas et al, can be downloaded from http://ai.stanford.edu/~amaas/data/sentiment/.

The downloaded archive contains two folders labeled train and test. For train, there are 12,500 positive reviews and 12,500 negative reviews that we will train a classifier on. The test dataset contains the same amount of positive and negative reviews for a grand total of 50,000 positive and negative reviews amongst the two files.

Let's look at an example of one review to see what the data looks like:

"Bromwell High is nothing short of brilliant. Expertly scripted and perfectly delivered, this searing parody of students and teachers at a South London Public School leaves you literally rolling with laughter. It's vulgar, provocative, witty and sharp...