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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)

Types of recommendation models

Recommender systems are widely studied, and there are many approaches used, but there are two that are probably most prevalent: content-based filtering and collaborative filtering. Recently, other approaches, such as ranking models, have also gained in popularity. In practice, many approaches are hybrids, incorporating elements of many different methods into a model or combination of models.

Content-based filtering

Content-based methods try to use the content or attributes of an item, together with some notion of similarity between two pieces of content, to generate items similar to a given item. These attributes are often textual content, such as titles, names, tags, and other metadata attached to an item, or in the case of media,...