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Spark for Data Science

You're reading from   Spark for Data Science Analyze your data and delve deep into the world of machine learning with the latest Spark version, 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885655
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bikramaditya Singhal Bikramaditya Singhal
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Srinivas Duvvuri Srinivas Duvvuri
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Srinivas Duvvuri
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Preface 1. Big Data and Data Science – An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. The Spark Programming Model 3. Introduction to DataFrames 4. Unified Data Access 5. Data Analysis on Spark 6. Machine Learning 7. Extending Spark with SparkR 8. Analyzing Unstructured Data 9. Visualizing Big Data 10. Putting It All Together 11. Building Data Science Applications

Communicating the results to business users


In real-life scenarios, it is mostly the case that you have to keep communicating with the business intermittently. You might have to build several models before concluding on a final production-ready model and communicate the results to the business.

An implementable model does not always depend on accuracy; you might have to bring in other measures such as sensitivity, specificity, or an ROC curve, and also represent your results through visuals such as a Gain/Lift chart or an output of a K-S test with statistical significance. Note that these techniques require business users' input. This input often guides the way you build the models or set thresholds. Let us look at a few examples to better understand how it works:

  • If a regressor predicts the probability of an event occurring, then blindly setting the threshold to 0.5 and assuming anything above 0.5 is 1 and less than 0.5 is 0 may not be the best way! You may use an ROC curve and take a rather...

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