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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
Book Image

Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Plotting and visualizing images from the directory


This section will describe how to read and visualize the downloaded images before they are preprocessed and fed into the neural network for training. This is an important step in this chapter because the images need to be visualized to get a better understanding of the image sizes so they can be accurately cropped to omit the background and preserve only the necessary facial features.

Getting ready

Before beginning, complete the initial setup of importing the necessary libraries and functions as well as setting the path of the working directory.

How to do it...

The steps are as follows:

  1. Download the necessary libraries using the following lines of code. The output must result in a line that saysUsing TensorFlow backend, as shown in the screenshot that follows:
%matplotlib inline
from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
import numpy as np
from keras.models import Sequential...