Chapter 1. Spark for Machine Learning
This chapter provides an introduction to Apache Spark from a Machine Learning (ML) and data analytics perspective, and also discusses machine learning in relation to Spark computing. Here, we first present an overview of Apache Spark, as well as Spark's advantages for data analytics, in comparison to MapReduce and other computing platforms. Then we discuss five main issues, as below:
- Machine learning algorithms and libraries
- Spark RDD and dataframes
- Machine learning frameworks
- Spark pipelines
- Spark notebooks
All of the above are the most important topics that any data scientist or machine learning professional is expected to master, in order to fully take advantage of Apache Spark computing. Specifically, this chapter ...
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