Book Image

Scala Machine Learning Projects

Book Image

Scala Machine Learning Projects

Overview of this book

Machine learning has had a huge impact on academia and industry by turning data into actionable information. Scala has seen a steady rise in adoption over the past few years, especially in the fields of data science and analytics. This book is for data scientists, data engineers, and deep learning enthusiasts who have a background in complex numerical computing and want to know more hands-on machine learning application development. If you're well versed in machine learning concepts and want to expand your knowledge by delving into the practical implementation of these concepts using the power of Scala, then this book is what you need! Through 11 end-to-end projects, you will be acquainted with popular machine learning libraries such as Spark ML, H2O, DeepLearning4j, and MXNet. At the end, you will be able to use numerical computing and functional programming to carry out complex numerical tasks to develop, build, and deploy research or commercial projects in a production-ready environment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. High Frequency Bitcoin Price Prediction from Historical and Live Data

Bitcoin is a worldwide cryptocurrency and digital payment system considered the first decentralized digital currency, since the system works without a central repository or single administrator. In recent times, it has gained much popularity and attention among people around the world.

In this chapter, we will see how to develop a real-life project using Scala, Spark ML, Cryptocompare API, and Bitcoin historical (and live) data to predict the price for an upcoming week, month, and so on that help us taking automated decision for online cryptocurrency. In addition to this, we will see how to generate a simple signal for online Bitcoin trading.

Briefly, we will learn the following topics throughout this end-to-end project:

  • Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and online trading
  • Historical and live-price data collection
  • High-level pipeline of the prototype
  • Gradient-boosted trees regression for Bitcoin price prediction
  • Demo prediction...