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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)

MLlib supported methods and developer APIs

MLlib provides fast and distributed implementations of learning algorithms, including various linear models, Naive Bayes, SVM, and Ensembles of Decision Trees (also known as Random Forests) for classification and regression problems, alternating.

Least Squares (explicit and implicit feedback) are used for collaborative filtering. It also supports k-means clustering and principal component analysis (PCA) for clustering and dimensionality reduction.

The library provides some low-level primitives and basic utilities for convex optimization (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-optimization.html), distributed linear algebra (with support for Vectors and Matrix), statistical analysis (using Breeze and also native functions), and feature extraction, and supports various I/O formats, including native support for LIBSVM format.

It also supports data integration via Spark SQL...