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Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By : Padma Priya Chitturi
Book Image

Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

By: Padma Priya Chitturi

Overview of this book

Spark has emerged as the most promising big data analytics engine for data science professionals. The true power and value of Apache Spark lies in its ability to execute data science tasks with speed and accuracy. Spark’s selling point is that it combines ETL, batch analytics, real-time stream analysis, machine learning, graph processing, and visualizations. It lets you tackle the complexities that come with raw unstructured data sets with ease. This guide will get you comfortable and confident performing data science tasks with Spark. You will learn about implementations including distributed deep learning, numerical computing, and scalable machine learning. You will be shown effective solutions to problematic concepts in data science using Spark’s data science libraries such as MLLib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and more. These simple and efficient recipes will show you how to implement algorithms and optimize your work.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


Statistics refers to the mathematics and techniques with which we understand data. It is a vast field which plays a key role in the areas of data mining and artificial intelligence, intersecting with the areas of engineering and other disciplines. Statistics helps in describing data, that is, descriptive statistics reveals the distribution of the data for each variable. Also, statistics is widely used for the purpose of prediction.

In this chapter, we'll see how to apply various statistical measures and functions on large datasets using Spark.

Working with Pandas

Pandas is an open source Python library for highly specialized data analysis. It is the reference point that all professionals using the Python language need to study and analyze data sets for statistical purposes of analysis and decision-making. Pandas arises from the need to have a specific library for the analysis of the data which provides tools for data processing , data extraction and data manipulation.

It is designed...