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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)

FP-Growth algorithm

We will apply the FP-Growth algorithm to find frequently recommended movies.

The FP-Growth algorithm has been described in the paper by Han et al., Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/335191.335372, where FP stands for the frequent pattern. For given a dataset of transactions, the first step of FP-Growth is to calculate item frequencies and identify frequent items. The second step of FP-Growth algorithm implementation uses a suffix tree (FP-tree) structure to encode transactions; this is done without generating candidate sets explicitly, which are usually expensive to generate for large datasets.

FP-Growth Basic Sample

Let's start with a very simple dataset of random numbers:

val transactions...