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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

Implementing openNLP - sentence detector over Spark


Partitioning text into sentences is called Sentence Boundary Disambiguation (SBD) or Sentence Detection. This process is useful for many downstream NLP tasks, which require analysis within sentences; for instance POS and phrase analysis. This Sentence Detection process is language dependent. Most search engines are not concerned with Sentence Detection. They are only interested in query's tokens and their respective positions. POS taggers and other NLP tasks that perform extraction of data will frequently process individual sentences. The detection of sentence boundaries will help separate phrases that might appear to span sentences.

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. For installing Spark on a standalone cluster, please refer to http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html. ...