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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
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


The study of natural language processing is called NLP. It is about the application of computers on different language nuances and building real-world applications using NLP techniques. NLP is analogous to teaching a language to a child. The most common tasks, such as understanding words and sentences, forming grammatically and structurally correct sentences are natural to humans. In NLP, some of these tasks translate to tokenization, chunking, parts of speech tagging, parsing, machine translation and speech recognition and these are tough challenges for computers.

Currently, NLP is one of the rarest skill sets that is required in the industry. With the advent of big data, the major challenge is that there is a need for people who are good with not just structured, but also with semi or unstructured data. Petabytes of weblogs, tweets, Facebook feeds, chats, e-mails and reviews are generated continuously. Companies are collecting all these different kinds of data for better customer...