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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

Streaming data with DL4J and Spark

In this section, we are going to apply data streaming with Kafka and Spark to a use case scenario of a DL4J application. The DL4J module we are going to use is DataVec.

Let's consider the example that we presented in the Spark Streaming and Kafka section. What we want to achieve is direct Kafka streaming with Spark, then apply DataVec transformations on the incoming data as soon as it arrives, before using it downstream.

Let's define the input schema first. This is the schema we expect for the messages that are consumed from a Kafka topic. The schema structure is the same as for the classic Iris dataset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set):

val inputDataSchema = new Schema.Builder()
.addColumnsDouble("Sepal length", "Sepal width", "Petal length", "Petal width")
.addColumnInteger...