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Big Data Analytics with Java

By : RAJAT MEHTA
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Big Data Analytics with Java

By: RAJAT MEHTA

Overview of this book

This book covers case studies such as sentiment analysis on a tweet dataset, recommendations on a movielens dataset, customer segmentation on an ecommerce dataset, and graph analysis on actual flights dataset. This book is an end-to-end guide to implement analytics on big data with Java. Java is the de facto language for major big data environments, including Hadoop. This book will teach you how to perform analytics on big data with production-friendly Java. This book basically divided into two sections. The first part is an introduction that will help the readers get acquainted with big data environments, whereas the second part will contain a hardcore discussion on all the concepts in analytics on big data. It will take you from data analysis and data visualization to the core concepts and advantages of machine learning, real-life usage of regression and classification using Naïve Bayes, a deep discussion on the concepts of clustering,and a review of simple neural networks on big data using deepLearning4j or plain Java Spark code. This book is a must-have book for Java developers who want to start learning big data analytics and want to use it in the real world.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Big Data Analytics with Java
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Big Data Analytics with Java
8
Ensembling on Big Data
12
Real-Time Analytics on Big Data
Index

About the Reviewers

Dave Wentzel is the CTO of Capax Global, a data consultancy specializing in SQL Server, cloud, IoT, data science, and Hadoop technologies. Dave helps customers with data modernization projects. For years, Dave worked at big independent software vendors, dealing with the scalability limitations of traditional relational databases. With the advent of Hadoop and big data technologies everything changed. Things that were impossible to do with data were suddenly within reach.

Before joining Capax, Dave worked at Microsoft, assisting customers with big data solutions on Azure. Success for Dave is solving challenging problems at companies he respects, with talented people who he admires.

Roberto Casati is a certified enterprise architect working in the financial services market. Roberto lives in Milan, Italy, with his wife, their daughter, and a dog.

In a former life, after graduating in engineering, he worked as a Java developer, Java architect, and presales architect for the most important telecommunications, travel, and financial services companies.

His interests and passions include data science, artificial intelligence, technology, and food.