Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "You can also run the transmodel.py program using the Python command-line interpreter pyspark."

A block of code is set as follows:

#!/bin/bash 
while [ true ] 
do 
echo 1 2 $RANDOM  
sleep 1 
done

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

>>> from pyspark.mllib.clustering import KMeans, KMeansModel 
>>> from numpy import array

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

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