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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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Preface

Working with H2O on Spark


Sparkling Water is executed as a regular Spark application. It provides a way to initialize H2O services on each node in the Spark Cluster and to access data stored in the data structures of Spark and H2O. The Sparkling Water application is launched inside a spark executor created after submitting the application. At this point, H2O starts the services, including the distributed key value (KV) storage and the memory manager.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark Cluster in any one of the following modes: Local, standalone, YARN, Mesos. You must also include the Spark MLlib package in the build.sbt file so that it downloads the related libraries and the API can be used. Install Hadoop (optionally), Scala, and Java.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we'll learn how to download and install H2O services in a Spark Cluster. We'll also use the H2O API in Spark.

The list of sub-recipes in this section is as follows:

  • Downloading and installing H2O...