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Scala Machine Learning Projects

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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to develop a real-life application called options trading using a RL algorithm called Q-learning. The IBM stock datasets were used to design a machine learning system driven by criticisms and rewards. Additionally, we learned some theoretical background. Finally, we learned how to wrap up a Scala desktop application as a web app using Scala Play Framework and deploy it in production.

In the next chapter, we will see two examples of building very robust and accurate predictive models for predictive analytics using H2O on a bank marketing dataset. For this example, we will be using bank marketing datasets. The data is related to direct marketing campaigns of a Portuguese banking institution. The marketing campaigns were based on phone calls. The goal of this end-to-end project will be to predict that the client will subscribe a term deposit.