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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

Anaconda for cluster management


Anaconda for cluster management provides resource management tools which allow users to easily create, provision and manage bare-metal or cloud-based clusters. It enables the management of conda environments on clusters and provides integration, configuration and setup management of Hadoop services. This can be installed alongside enterprise Hadoop distributions such as Cloudera CDH or Hortonworks HDP and this is used to manage conda packages and environments across a cluster.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you need Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux flavor) installed on the machine. Python comes pre-installed. python --version gives the version of Python installed. If the version is 2.6.x, upgrade it to Python 2.7 as follows:

    sudo apt-get install python2.7

For installing Anaconda, please refer to the earlier Installing Anaconda on Linux recipe.

How to do it…

Let's look at the installation process for installing Anaconda for cluster management:

  1. You can create...