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Learning Apache Spark 2

By : Abbasi
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Learning Apache Spark 2

By: Abbasi

Overview of this book

Apache Spark has seen an unprecedented growth in terms of its adoption over the last few years, mainly because of its speed, diversity and real-time data processing capabilities. It has quickly become the preferred choice of tool for many Big Data professionals looking to find quick insights from large chunks of data. This book introduces you to the Apache Spark framework, and familiarizes you with all the latest features and capabilities introduced in Spark 2. Starting with a detailed introduction to Spark’s architecture and the installation procedure, this book covers everything you need to know about the Spark framework in the most practical manner. You will learn how to perform the basic ETL activities using Spark, and work with different components of Spark such as Spark SQL, as well as the Dataset and DataFrame APIs for manipulating your data. Then, you will perform machine learning using Spark MLlib, as well as perform streaming analytics and graph processing using the Spark Streaming and GraphX modules respectively. The book also gives special emphasis on deploying your Spark models, and how they can be operated in a clustered mode. During the course of the book, you will come across implementations of different real-world use-cases and examples, giving you the hands-on knowledge you need to use Apache Spark in the best possible manner.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Recommendation system in Spark


We are now going to move ahead with the practical example of building the recommendation system with Spark. Since most users are familiar with movies, we are going to use the Movie Lens data set for building a recommendation system, have a look at the data, and look at some of the options. The theory behind recommendation systems and this practical example should give you a good starting point in building one.

Sample dataset

We are going to use the MovieLens 100k dataset, which at the time of writing was last updated in October 2016. This dataset (ml-latest-small) describes 5-star rating and free-text tagging activity from MovieLens (https://movielens.org/), a movie recommendation service. It contains 1,00,004 ratings and 1,296 tag applications across 9,125 movies. This data was created by 671 users between January 09, 1995 and October 16, 2016. This dataset was generated on October 17, 2016 and it can be found at http://bit.ly/24PV0hK. Further details...