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Mastering Scala Machine Learning

By : Alex Kozlov
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Mastering Scala Machine Learning

By: Alex Kozlov

Overview of this book

Since the advent of object-oriented programming, new technologies related to Big Data are constantly popping up on the market. One such technology is Scala, which is considered to be a successor to Java in the area of Big Data by many, like Java was to C/C++ in the area of distributed programing. This book aims to take your knowledge to next level and help you impart that knowledge to build advanced applications such as social media mining, intelligent news portals, and more. After a quick refresher on functional programming concepts using REPL, you will see some practical examples of setting up the development environment and tinkering with data. We will then explore working with Spark and MLlib using k-means and decision trees. Most of the data that we produce today is unstructured and raw, and you will learn to tackle this type of data with advanced topics such as regression, classification, integration, and working with graph algorithms. Finally, you will discover at how to use Scala to perform complex concept analysis, to monitor model performance, and to build a model repository. By the end of this book, you will have gained expertise in performing Scala machine learning and will be able to build complex machine learning projects using Scala.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Scala Machine Learning
Credits
About the Author
Acknowlegement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Advanced Model Monitoring
Index

Summary


This chapter described system, application, and model monitoring goals together with the existing monitoring solutions for Scala, and specifically Scalatra. Many metrics overlap with standard OS or Java monitoring, but we also discussed how to create application-specific metrics and health checks. We talked about a new emerging field of model monitoring in an ML application, where statistical models are subject to deterioration, health, and performance monitoring. I also touched on monitoring distributed systems, a topic that really deserves much more space, which unfortunately, I did not have.

This is the end of the book, but in no way is it the end of the journey. I am sure, new frameworks and applications are being written as we speak. Scala has been a pretty awesome and succinct development tool in my practice, with which I've been able to achieve results in hours instead of days, which is the case with more traditional tools, but it is yet to win the popular support, which I...