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Mastering Spark for Data Science

By : Andrew Morgan, Antoine Amend, Matthew Hallett, David George
Book Image

Mastering Spark for Data Science

By: Andrew Morgan, Antoine Amend, Matthew Hallett, David George

Overview of this book

Data science seeks to transform the world using data, and this is typically achieved through disrupting and changing real processes in real industries. In order to operate at this level you need to build data science solutions of substance –solutions that solve real problems. Spark has emerged as the big data platform of choice for data scientists due to its speed, scalability, and easy-to-use APIs. This book deep dives into using Spark to deliver production-grade data science solutions. This process is demonstrated by exploring the construction of a sophisticated global news analysis service that uses Spark to generate continuous geopolitical and current affairs insights.You will learn all about the core Spark APIs and take a comprehensive tour of advanced libraries, including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, MLlib, and more. You will be introduced to advanced techniques and methods that will help you to construct commercial-grade data products. Focusing on a sequence of tutorials that deliver a working news intelligence service, you will learn about advanced Spark architectures, how to work with geographic data in Spark, and how to tune Spark algorithms so they scale linearly.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Spark for Data Science
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Quality assurance


With an initial data ingestion capability implemented, and data streaming onto your platform, you will need to decide how much quality assurance is required at the "front door". It's perfectly viable to start with no initial quality controls and build them up over time (retrospectively scanning historical data as time and resources allow). However, it may be prudent to install a basic level of verification to begin with. For example, basic checks such as file integrity, parity checking, completeness, checksums, type checking, field counting, overdue files, security field pre-population, denormalization, and so on.

You should take care that your up-front checks do not take too long. Depending on the intensity of your examinations and the size of your data, it's not uncommon to encounter a situation where there is not enough time to perform all processing before the next dataset arrives. You will always need to monitor your cluster resources and calculate the most efficient...