Loading the stop and frisk dataset

We will be using the diabetes dataset which was constructed in the last chapter. For some of the other decision tree examples, we will need to load the stop and frisk dataset. You can obtain this dataset from the following URL: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/stopfrisk.page.

Select the 2015 CSV zip archive and download and extract the files to the projects directory, e.g C:/PracticalPredictiveAnalytics/Data, and name the file 2015_sqf_csv

Importing the CSV file to databricks

Databricks contains a simple user interface which allows you to load a file to the Databricks HDFS filesystem. Alternatively, you can load the file directly to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and read the...