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Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By : Guglielmo Iozzia
Book Image

Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By: Guglielmo Iozzia

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning where datasets with several layers of complexity can be processed. Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark addresses the sheer complexity of technical and analytical parts and the speed at which deep learning solutions can be implemented on Apache Spark. The book starts with the fundamentals of Apache Spark and deep learning. You will set up Spark for deep learning, learn principles of distributed modeling, and understand different types of neural nets. You will then implement deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) on Spark. As you progress through the book, you will gain hands-on experience of what it takes to understand the complex datasets you are dealing with. During the course of this book, you will use popular deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, Deeplearning4j, and Keras to train your distributed models. By the end of this book, you'll have gained experience with the implementation of your models on a variety of use cases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Appendix A: Functional Programming in Scala
Appendix B: Image Data Preparation for Spark

Extract, Transform, Load

Training and testing DL models requires data. Data is usually hosted on different distributed and remote storage systems. You need them to connect to the data sources and perform data retrieval so that you can start the training phase and you would probably need to do some preparation before feeding your model. This chapter goes through the phases of the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process applied to DL. It covers several use cases for which the DeepLearning4j framework and Spark would be used. The use cases presented here are related to batch data ingestion. Data streaming will be covered in the next chapter.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Training data ingestion through Spark
  • Data ingestion from a relational database
  • Data ingestion from a NoSQL database
  • Data ingestion from S3