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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

Graph algorithms and applications

For this application section, in which we will discuss triangle counting, (strongly) connected components, PageRank and other algorithms available in GraphX, we will load another interesting graph dataset from http://networkrepository.com/. This time please download data from http://networkrepository.com/ca-hollywood-2009.php, which consists of an undirected graph whose vertices represent actors occurring in movies. Each line of the file contains two vertex IDs representing an edge, meaning that these actors appeared together in a movie.

The dataset consists of about 1.1 million vertices and has 56.3 million edges. Although the file size, even after unzipping, is not particularly large, a graph of this size is a real challenge for a graph processing engine. Since we assume you work with Spark's standalone mode locally, this graph will likely...