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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


Deep learning is a new area of machine learning which has been introduced with the objective of moving machine learning closer to one of its original goals, which is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is becoming an important AI paradigm for pattern recognition, image/video processing and fraud detection applications in finance.

Deep learning is the implementation of neural networks with more than a single hidden layer of neurons. The deep architectures vary quite considerably, with different implementations being optimized for different tasks or goals. To get familiar with neural networks, please get acquainted with the fundamentals of neural networks at http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2016/03/introduction-deep-learning-fundamentals-neural-networks/ and http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/. The deep networks use many layers of non-linear information processing that are hierarchical in nature.

The deep models are capable of extracting useful, high-level, structured representations...