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Spark for Data Science

You're reading from   Spark for Data Science Analyze your data and delve deep into the world of machine learning with the latest Spark version, 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885655
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bikramaditya Singhal Bikramaditya Singhal
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Srinivas Duvvuri Srinivas Duvvuri
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Preface 1. Big Data and Data Science – An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. The Spark Programming Model 3. Introduction to DataFrames 4. Unified Data Access 5. Data Analysis on Spark 6. Machine Learning 7. Extending Spark with SparkR 8. Analyzing Unstructured Data 9. Visualizing Big Data 10. Putting It All Together 11. Building Data Science Applications

Data visualization techniques

Data visualization is at the center of every stage in the data analytics life cycle. It is especially important for exploratory analysis and for communicating results. In either case, the goal is to transform data into a format that's efficient for human consumption. The approach of delegating the transformation to client-side libraries does not scale to large datasets. The transformation has to happen on the server side, sending only the relevant data to the client for rendering. Most of the common transformations are available in Apache Spark out of the box. Let's have a closer look at these transformations.

Summarizing and visualizing

Summarizing and visualizing is a technique used by many Business Intelligence (BI) tools. Since summarization will be a concise dataset regardless of the size of the underlying dataset, the graphs look simple enough and easy to render. There are various ways to summarize the data such as aggregating, pivoting...

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