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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)

Online learning with Spark Streaming

As we have seen, Spark Streaming makes it easy to work with data streams in a way that should be familiar to us from working with RDDs. Using Spark's stream processing primitives combined with the online learning capabilities of ML Library SGD-based methods, we can create real-time machine learning models that we can update on new data in the stream as it arrives.

Streaming regression

Spark provides a built-in streaming machine learning model in the StreamingLinearAlgorithm class. Currently, only a linear regression implementation is available-StreamingLinearRegressionWithSGD-but future versions will include classification.

The streaming regression model provides two methods for usage:

  • trainOn: This takes DStream[LabeledPoint...