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Apache Spark 2.x Cookbook

By : Rishi Yadav
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Apache Spark 2.x Cookbook

By: Rishi Yadav

Overview of this book

While Apache Spark 1.x gained a lot of traction and adoption in the early years, Spark 2.x delivers notable improvements in the areas of API, schema awareness, Performance, Structured Streaming, and simplifying building blocks to build better, faster, smarter, and more accessible big data applications. This book uncovers all these features in the form of structured recipes to analyze and mature large and complex sets of data. Starting with installing and configuring Apache Spark with various cluster managers, you will learn to set up development environments. Further on, you will be introduced to working with RDDs, DataFrames and Datasets to operate on schema aware data, and real-time streaming with various sources such as Twitter Stream and Apache Kafka. You will also work through recipes on machine learning, including supervised learning, unsupervised learning & recommendation engines in Spark. Last but not least, the final few chapters delve deeper into the concepts of graph processing using GraphX, securing your implementations, cluster optimization, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using linear regression


Linear regression is the approach to model the value of a response or outcome variable y, based on one or more predictor variables or features, represented by x.

Getting ready

Let's use some housing data to predict the price of a house based on its size. The following are the sizes and prices of houses in the City of Saratoga, CA, in early 2014:

House size (sq. ft.)

Price

2100

$ 1,620,000

2300

$ 1,690,000

2046

$ 1,400,000

4314

$ 2,000,000

1244

$ 1,060,000

4608

$ 3,830,000

2173

$ 1,230,000

2750

$ 2,400,000

4010

$ 3,380,000

1959

$ 1,480,000

Here's a graphical representation of the same:

How to do it...

  1. Start the Spark shell:
$ spark-shell
  1. Import the statistics and related classes:
scala> import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vectors
scala> import org.apache.spark.ml.regression.LinearRegression
  1. Create a DataFrame with the house price as the label:
scala>  val points = spark.createDataFrame(Seq(
  (1620000,Vectors.dense(2100)),
  (1690000,Vectors.dense(2300)),
  (1400000,Vectors.dense(2046)),
...