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Clojure for Data Science

You're reading from   Clojure for Data Science Statistics, big data, and machine learning for Clojure programmers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397180
Length 608 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Henry Garner Henry Garner
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Preface 1. Statistics FREE CHAPTER 2. Inference 3. Correlation 4. Classification 5. Big Data 6. Clustering 7. Recommender Systems 8. Network Analysis 9. Time Series 10. Visualization Index

Distributed graph computation with GraphX

GraphX (https://spark.apache.org/graphx/) is a distributed graph processing library that is designed to work with Spark. Like the MLlib library we used in the previous chapter, GraphX provides a set of abstractions that are built on top of Spark's RDDs. By representing the vertices and edges of a graph as RDDs, GraphX is able to process very large graphs in a scalable way.

We've seen in previous chapters how to process a large dataset using MapReduce and Hadoop. Hadoop is an example of a data-parallel system: the dataset is divided into groups that are processed in parallel. Spark is also a data-parallel system: RDDs are distributed across the cluster and processed in parallel.

Distributed graph computation with GraphX

Data-parallel systems are appropriate ways of scaling data processing when your data closely resembles a table. Graphs, which may have complex internal structure, are not most efficiently represented as tables. Although graphs can be represented as edge lists, as...

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