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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 6. Notebooks and Dataflows with Spark and Hadoop

There are many tools available for interactive analytics and to provide visualizations on Spark and Hadoop platforms. Some of the more important tools are the IPython Notebook (Jupyter), Spark Notebook, Ispark, Hue, Spark Kernel, Jove Notebook, Beaker Notebook, and Databricks Cloud. All of these notebooks are open source, except Databricks Cloud. This chapter is aimed at introducing and using some of the important interactive analytics tools using notebooks and a dataflow engine called NiFi. This chapter is divided into the following subtopics:

  • Introducing web-based notebooks

  • Introducing Jupyter

  • Introducing Apache Zeppelin

  • Using the Livy REST job server and Hue Notebooks

  • Introducing Apache NiFi for dataflows