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Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints

By : Alex Liu
Book Image

Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints

By: Alex Liu

Overview of this book

There's a reason why Apache Spark has become one of the most popular tools in Machine Learning – its ability to handle huge datasets at an impressive speed means you can be much more responsive to the data at your disposal. This book shows you Spark at its very best, demonstrating how to connect it with R and unlock maximum value not only from the tool but also from your data. Packed with a range of project "blueprints" that demonstrate some of the most interesting challenges that Spark can help you tackle, you'll find out how to use Spark notebooks and access, clean, and join different datasets before putting your knowledge into practice with some real-world projects, in which you will see how Spark Machine Learning can help you with everything from fraud detection to analyzing customer attrition. You'll also find out how to build a recommendation engine using Spark's parallel computing powers.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Model evaluation


Once our model gets estimated as in the preceding section, it is time for us to evaluate these estimated models to see if they fit our client's criteria so that we can either move to the results explanation stage or go back to some previous stage to refine our predictive models.

From the client's perspective, there are two common error types in machine learning for churn prediction.

The first one is False Negative (Type I Error), which is about failing to identify a customer who has a high propensity to depart.

From a business perspective, this is the least desirable error as the customer is very likely to leave, and the company does not know that it lost the chance to act to keep the customers, thus adversely affecting the the company's revenue.

The second one is False Positive (Type II Error), which is about classifying a good, satisfied customer as one who is one likely to churn. 

From a business perspective, this may be acceptable as it does not impact revenue, but will create...