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Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints

You're reading from   Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints Develop a range of cutting-edge machine learning projects with Apache Spark using this actionable guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880391
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alex Liu Alex Liu
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Spark for Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Preparation for Spark ML 3. A Holistic View on Spark 4. Fraud Detection on Spark 5. Risk Scoring on Spark 6. Churn Prediction on Spark 7. Recommendations on Spark 8. Learning Analytics on Spark 9. City Analytics on Spark 10. Learning Telco Data on Spark 11. Modeling Open Data on Spark Index

Results explanation


As before, once we pass the model evaluation stage and select the estimated model as our final model, the next task is to interpret the results for the company executives and technicians.

In the next section, we will work on results explanation focusing on some big influencing variables. With the big influencing variables identified, the company could use them to improve their marketing effort to recruit the right customers.

Big influencers and their impacts

With logistic regression results, we can explain the impact of each feature by using regression coefficients, and identify big influencers by comparing those coefficients.

With the same logic, we can also rank each feature by its effects as calculated by the logistic regression coefficients.

Another way is to use the R package of effect, which was created by John Fox and others especially for the display of the effects of linear and generalized linear models. By using this package, we can obtain a list and some graphical...

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