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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

Multivariate regression


It is possible to minimize multiple metrics at the same time. While Spark only has a few multivariate analysis tools, other more traditional well-established packages come with Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), a generalization of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method. I will cover ANOVA and MANOVA in Chapter 7, Working with Graph Algorithms.

For a practical analysis, we first need to understand if the target variables are correlated, for which we can use the PCA Spark implementation covered in Chapter 3, Working with Spark and MLlib. If the dependent variables are strongly correlated, maximizing one leads to maximizing the other, and we can just maximize the first principal component (and potentially build a regression model on the second component to understand what drives the difference).

If the targets are uncorrelated, building a separate model for each of them can pinpoint the important variables that drive either and whether these two sets are disjoint...