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Clojure for Data Science

You're reading from  Clojure for Data Science

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784397180
Pages 608 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Henry Garner Henry Garner
Profile icon Henry Garner

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Clojure for Data Science
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Statistics 2. Inference 3. Correlation 4. Classification 5. Big Data 6. Clustering 7. Recommender Systems 8. Network Analysis 9. Time Series 10. Visualization Index

Scaling gradient descent with Hadoop


The length of time each iteration of batch gradient descent takes to run is determined by the size of your data and by how many processors your computer has. Although several chunks of data are processed in parallel, the dataset is large and the processors are finite. We've achieved a speed gain by performing calculations in parallel, but if we double the size of the dataset, the runtime will double as well.

Hadoop is one of several systems that has emerged in the last decade which aims to parallelize work that exceeds the capabilities of a single machine. Rather than running code across multiple processors, Hadoop takes care of running a calculation across many servers. In fact, Hadoop clusters can, and some do, consist of many thousands of servers.

Hadoop consists of two primary subsystems— the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)—and the job processing system, MapReduce. HDFS stores files in chunks. A given file may be composed of many chunks and chunks...

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