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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)

Summary


This concludes the chapter. We have gone through recommendation systems, including the theory and some practical examples in Scala. I have learned a lot of this theory from some of the courses on data mining at Coursera, which is an amazing platform. I hope we have been able to do justice to the topic. We have tried to focus a lot on the design and the factors involved in a recommendation system as I always believe that engineering the solution is the easy part once you understand what you are up against.

The next chapter is focused on another case study, which is churn prediction, one of the most popular use cases in any customer-driven organization, that understands the cost of acquiring a new customer versus retaining an existing one.