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Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

By : AshishSingh Bhatia, Bostjan Kaluza
Book Image

Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

By: AshishSingh Bhatia, Bostjan Kaluza

Overview of this book

As the amount of data in the world continues to grow at an almost incomprehensible rate, being able to understand and process data is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine learning applications are everywhere, from self-driving cars, spam detection, document search, and trading strategies, to speech recognition. This makes machine learning well-suited to the present-day era of big data and Data Science. The main challenge is how to transform data into actionable knowledge. Machine Learning in Java will provide you with the techniques and tools you need. You will start by learning how to apply machine learning methods to a variety of common tasks including classification, prediction, forecasting, market basket analysis, and clustering. The code in this book works for JDK 8 and above, the code is tested on JDK 11. Moving on, you will discover how to detect anomalies and fraud, and ways to perform activity recognition, image recognition, and text analysis. By the end of the book, you will have explored related web resources and technologies that will help you take your learning to the next level. By applying the most effective machine learning methods to real-world problems, you will gain hands-on experience that will transform the way you think about data.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Getting Apache Mahout

Mahout was introduced in Chapter 2, Java Libraries and Platforms for Machine Learning, as a scalable machine learning library. It provides a rich set of components with which you can construct a customized recommendation system from a selection of algorithms. The creators of Mahout say that it is designed to be enterprise-ready; it's designed for performance, scalability, and flexibility.

Mahout can be configured to run in two flavors: with or without Hadoop, and for a single machine and distributed processing, respectively. We will focus on configuring Mahout without Hadoop. For more advanced configurations and further uses of Mahout, I would recommend two recent books: Learning Apache Mahout, by Chandramani Tiwary, Packt Publishing, and Learning Apache Mahout Classification, by Ashish Gupta, Packt Publishing.

As Apache Mahout's build and release...