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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

POS tagging with PySpark on an Anaconda cluster


Parts-of-speech tagging is the process of converting a sentence in the form of a list of words, into a list of tuples, where each tuple is of the form (word, tag). The tag is a part-of-speech tag and signifies whether the word is a noun, adjective, verb and so on. This is a necessary step before chunking. With parts-of-speech tags, a chunker knows how to identify phrases based on tag patterns. These POS tags are used for grammar analysis and word sense disambiguation.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark cluster either in pseudo distributed mode or in one of the distributed modes, that is, standalone, YARN, or Mesos. Also, have PySpark and Anaconda installed on the Linux machine, that is, Ubuntu 14.04. For installing Anaconda, please refer the earlier recipes.

How to do it…

Let's see how to implement POS tagging using PySpark:

  1. Activate the Anaconda cluster as follows:

            source activate acluster
    
  2. Install the...