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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

By : Frank Kane
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Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python

3.8 (11)
By: Frank Kane

Overview of this book

Frank Kane’s Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is your companion to learning Apache Spark in a hands-on manner. Frank will start you off by teaching you how to set up Spark on a single system or on a cluster, and you’ll soon move on to analyzing large data sets using Spark RDD, and developing and running effective Spark jobs quickly using Python. Apache Spark has emerged as the next big thing in the Big Data domain – quickly rising from an ascending technology to an established superstar in just a matter of years. Spark allows you to quickly extract actionable insights from large amounts of data, on a real-time basis, making it an essential tool in many modern businesses. Frank has packed this book with over 15 interactive, fun-filled examples relevant to the real world, and he will empower you to understand the Spark ecosystem and implement production-grade real-time Spark projects with ease.
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Where to Go From Here? – Learning More About Spark and Data Science

Creating similar movies from one million ratings – part 3


About 15 minutes after I set off our movie-similarities-1m script on a cluster using EMR, I have some actual results to look at. Let's review what happened.

Assessing the results

Here are the results:

The top similar movie to Star Wars Episode Four, was Star Wars Episode Five, not too surprising. But the next entry is a little bit surprising, some little movie called Sanjuro had a very high similarity score. Let's look at what's going on there. Its actual strength, the number of people that rated that together with Star Wars, was only 60, so I think it's safe to say that is kind of a spurious result. Now that we're using a million ratings, we probably need to increase that minimum threshold on the number of co-raters in order to actually display a result. By doing so, we could probably pretty easily filter out movies like that and instead get Raiders of the Lost Ark as our second result instead of as our third. I think the position...

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