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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)

Training classification models

Now that we have extracted some basic features from our dataset and created our input RDD, we are ready to train a number of models. To compare the performance and use of different models, we will train a model using logistic regression, SVM, naive Bayes, and a decision tree. You will notice that training each model looks nearly identical, although each has its own specific model parameters, which can be set. Spark ML sets sensible defaults in most cases, but in practice, the best parameter setting should be selected using evaluation techniques, which we will cover later in this chapter.

Training a classification model on the Kaggle/StumbleUpon evergreen classification dataset

We can now apply the models from Spark ML to our input data...