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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

Applying word2vec and exploring our data with vectors

Now that you have a good understanding of word2vec, doc2vec, and the incredible power of word vectors, it's time we turned our focus to our original IMDB dataset, whereby we will perform the following preprocessing:

  • Split words in each movie review by a space
  • Remove punctuation
  • Remove stopwords and all alphanumeric words
  • Using our tokenization function from the previous chapter, we will end with an array of comma-separated words
Because we have already covered the preceding steps in Chapter 4, Predicting Movie Reviews Using NLP and Spark Streaming, we'll quickly reproduce them in this section.

As usual, we begin with starting the Spark shell, which is our working environment:

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