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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


H2O is a fast, scalable, open-source machine learning and deep learning library for smarter applications. Using in-memory compression, H2O handles billions of data rows in memory, even with a small cluster. In order to create complete analytic workflows, H2O's platform includes interfaces for R, Python, Scala, Java, JSON and CoffeeScript/JavaScript flows, as well as a built-in web interface. H2O is designed to run in standalone mode on Hadoop, or within a Spark Cluster. It includes many common machine learning algorithms, such as generalized linear modeling (linear regression, logistic regression, and so on), Naive Bayes, principal components analysis, k-means clustering and others.

H2O also implements best-in-class algorithms at scale, such as distributed random forest, gradient boosting and deep learning. Users can build thousands of models and compare the results to get the best predictions.

Sparkling Water allows users to combine the fast, scalable machine learning algorithms...