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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

Projections


One way to deal with high dimensionality is projections on a lower dimensional space. The fundamental basis for why projections might work is Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. The lemma states that a small set of points in a high-dimensional space can be embedded into a space of much lower dimension in such a way that distances between the points are nearly preserved. We will touch on random and other projections when we talk about NLP in Chapter 9, NLP in Scala, but the random projections work well for nested structures and functional programming language, as in many cases, generating a random projection is the question of applying a function to a compactly encoded data rather than flattening the data explicitly. In other words, the Scala definition for a random projection may look like functional paradigm shines. Write the following function:

def randomeProjecton(data: NestedStructure) : Vector = { … }

Here, Vector is in low dimensional space.

The map used for embedding is at least...