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Big Data Analytics

By : Venkat Ankam
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Big Data Analytics

By: Venkat Ankam

Overview of this book

Big Data Analytics book aims at providing the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Hadoop. All Spark components – Spark Core, Spark SQL, DataFrames, Data sets, Conventional Streaming, Structured Streaming, MLlib, Graphx and Hadoop core components – HDFS, MapReduce and Yarn are explored in greater depth with implementation examples on Spark + Hadoop clusters. It is moving away from MapReduce to Spark. So, advantages of Spark over MapReduce are explained at great depth to reap benefits of in-memory speeds. DataFrames API, Data Sources API and new Data set API are explained for building Big Data analytical applications. Real-time data analytics using Spark Streaming with Apache Kafka and HBase is covered to help building streaming applications. New Structured streaming concept is explained with an IOT (Internet of Things) use case. Machine learning techniques are covered using MLLib, ML Pipelines and SparkR and Graph Analytics are covered with GraphX and GraphFrames components of Spark. Readers will also get an opportunity to get started with web based notebooks such as Jupyter, Apache Zeppelin and data flow tool Apache NiFi to analyze and visualize data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Interactive Analytics with SparkR

Apache Spark 1.4 release added SparkR, an R package on top of Spark, which allowed data analysts and data scientists to analyze large datasets and run jobs interactively using R language on Spark platforms.

R is one of the most popular open source statistical programming languages with a huge number (over 7,000) of community-supported packages. R packages help in statistical analysis, machine learning, and visualization of data. Interactive analytics in R is limited by single-threaded processes and memory limitation, which means that R can process data sets that fit in a single computer's memory only. SparkR is an R package developed at the AMPLab of University of California, which provides features of R on distributed computation engines of Spark, which enables us to run large-scale data analytics interactively using R. This chapter is divided into the following topics:

  • Introducing R and SparkR

  • Getting started with SparkR

  • Using DataFrames with...