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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev
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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev

Overview of this book

Data science is concerned with extracting knowledge and insights from a wide variety of data sources to analyse patterns or predict future behaviour. It draws from a wide array of disciplines including statistics, computer science, mathematics, machine learning, and data mining. In this course, we cover the basic as well as advanced data science concepts and how they are implemented using the popular Java tools and libraries.The course starts with an introduction of data science, followed by the basic data science tasks of data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization. This is followed by a discussion of statistical techniques and more advanced topics including machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. You will examine the major categories of data analysis including text, visual, and audio data, followed by a discussion of resources that support parallel implementation. Throughout this course, the chapters will illustrate a challenging data science problem, and then go on to present a comprehensive, Java-based solution to tackle that problem. You will cover a wide range of topics – from classification and regression, to dimensionality reduction and clustering, deep learning and working with Big Data. Finally, you will see the different ways to deploy the model and evaluate it in production settings. By the end of this course, you will be up and running with various facets of data science using Java, in no time at all. This course contains premium content from two of our recently published popular titles: - Java for Data Science - Mastering Java for Data Science
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
15
Module 2
26
Bibliography

Chapter 24. Scaling Data Science

So far we have covered a lot of material about data science, we learned how to do both supervised and unsupervised learning in Java, how to perform text mining, use XGBoost and train Deep Neural Networks. However, most of the methods and techniques we used so far were designed to run on a single machine with the assumption that all the data will fit into memory. As you should already know, this is often the case: there are very large datasets that are not possible to process with traditional techniques on a typical hardware. 

In this chapter, we will see how to process such datasets--we will look at the tools that allow processing the data across several machines. We will cover two use cases: one is large scale HTML processing from Common Crawl - the copy of the Web, and another is Link Prediction for a social network.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Apache Hadoop MapReduce
  • Common Crawl processing
  • Apache Spark 
  • Link prediction
  • Spark GraphFrame and MLlib libraries...