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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 versions compared

In this section, we will compare various versions of MLlib and new functionality, which has been added.

Spark 1.6 to 2.0

The DataFrame-based API will be the primary API.

The RDD-based API is entering maintenance mode. The MLlib guide (http://spark.apache.org/docs/2.0.0/ml-guide.html) provides more details.

The following are the new features introduced in Spark 2.0:

  • ML persistence: The DataFrames-based API provides support for saving and loading ML models and Pipelines in Scala, Java, Python, and R
  • MLlib in R: SparkR offers MLlib APIs for generalized linear models, naive Bayes, k-means clustering, and survival regression in this release
  • Python: PySpark in 2.0 supports new MLlib algorithms, LDA, Generalized Linear Regression, Gaussian Mixture...