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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

By : Rajdeep Dua, Manpreet Singh Ghotra
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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 covered the basics of Spark ML Pipeline and its components. We saw how to train models on input DataFrame and how to evaluate their performance using standard metrics and measures while running them through spark ML pipeline APIs. We explored how to apply some of the techniques like transformers and estimators. Finally, we investigated the pipeline API by applying different algorithms on the StumbleUpon dataset from Kaggle.

Machine Learning is the rising star in the industry. It has certainly addressed many business problems and use cases. We hope that our readers will find new and innovative ways to make these approaches more powerful and extend the journey to understand the principles that hold learning and intelligence. For further practice and reading on Machine Learning and Spark refer https://www.kaggle.com and https://databricks.com/spark/ respectively.

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