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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

By : Rajdeep Dua, Manpreet Singh Ghotra
Book Image

Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

By: Rajdeep Dua, Manpreet Singh Ghotra

Overview of this book

This book will teach you about popular machine learning algorithms and their implementation. You will learn how various machine learning concepts are implemented in the context of Spark ML. You will start by installing Spark in a single and multinode cluster. Next you'll see how to execute Scala and Python based programs for Spark ML. Then we will take a few datasets and go deeper into clustering, classification, and regression. Toward the end, we will also cover text processing using Spark ML. Once you have learned the concepts, they can be applied to implement algorithms in either green-field implementations or to migrate existing systems to this new platform. You can migrate from Mahout or Scikit to use Spark ML. By the end of this book, you will acquire the skills to leverage Spark's features to create your own scalable machine learning applications and power a modern data-driven business.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we took a deeper look into more complex text processing and explored MLlib's text feature extraction capabilities, in particular the tf-idf term weighting schemes. We covered examples of using the resulting tf-idf feature vectors to compute document similarity and train a newsgroup topic classification model. Finally, you learned how to use MLlib's cutting-edge Word2Vec model to compute a vector representation of words in a corpus of text and use the trained model to find words with contextual meaning that is similar to a given word. We also looked at using Word2Vec with Spark ML

In the next chapter, we will take a look at online learning, and you will learn how Spark Streaming relates to online learning models.