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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

Downloading novels/books that will be used as input text


In this recipe, we will go the steps that we need to download the novels/books which we will use as input text for the execution of this recipe.

Getting ready

  • Place the input data in the form of a .txt file in the working directory.
  • The input may be any kind of text, such as song lyrics, novels, magazine articles, and source code.
  • Most of the classical texts are no longer protected by copyright and may be downloaded for free and used in experiments. The best place to get access to free books is Project Gutenberg.
  • In this chapter, we will be using The Jungle book by Rudyard Kipling as the input to train our model and generate statistically similar text as output. The following screenshot shows you how to download the necessary file in .txt format:
  • After visiting the website and searching for the required book, click on Plain Text UTF-8 and download it. UTF-8 basically specifies the type of encoding. The text may be copied and pasted or saved...