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Practical Predictive Analytics

You're reading from   Practical Predictive Analytics Analyse current and historical data to predict future trends using R, Spark, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785886188
Length 576 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ralph Winters Ralph Winters
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Predictive Analytics FREE CHAPTER 2. The Modeling Process 3. Inputting and Exploring Data 4. Introduction to Regression Algorithms 5. Introduction to Decision Trees, Clustering, and SVM 6. Using Survival Analysis to Predict and Analyze Customer Churn 7. Using Market Basket Analysis as a Recommender Engine 8. Exploring Health Care Enrollment Data as a Time Series 9. Introduction to Spark Using R 10. Exploring Large Datasets Using Spark 11. Spark Machine Learning - Regression and Cluster Models 12. Spark Models – Rule-Based Learning

Exploring Large Datasets Using Spark

"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In this chapter, we will begin to perform some exploratory data analysis on the Spark dataframe we created in the previous chapter. We will learn about some specific Spark commands that will assist you in your analysis, and will discuss several ways to perform graphing and plotting.

As you go through these examples, remember that data that resides in Spark may be much larger than you are used to, and that it may be impractical to apply some quick analytic techniques without first considering how the data is organized, and how performance will be affecting using standard techniques.

If you are picking up where you left off in the previous chapter...

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