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Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning Perform data mining and machine learning efficiently using Python and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280748
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Statistics and Probability Refresher, and Python Practice 3. Matplotlib and Advanced Probability Concepts 4. Predictive Models 5. Machine Learning with Python 6. Recommender Systems 7. More Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques 8. Dealing with Real-World Data 9. Apache Spark - Machine Learning on Big Data 10. Testing and Experimental Design

TF-IDF

So, our final example of MLlib is going to be using something called Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency, or TF-IDF, which is the fundamental building block of many search algorithms. As usual, it sounds complicated, but it's not as bad as it sounds.

So, first, let's talk about the concepts of TF-IDF, and how we might go about using that to solve a search problem. And what we're actually going to do with TF-IDF is create a rudimentary search engine for Wikipedia using Apache Spark in MLlib. How awesome is that? Let's get started.

TF-IDF stands for Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency, and these are basically two metrics that are closely interrelated for doing search and figuring out the relevancy of a given word to a document, given a larger body of documents. So, for example, every article on Wikipedia might have a term frequency associated...

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