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Modern Scala Projects

You're reading from   Modern Scala Projects Leverage the power of Scala for building data-driven and high performance projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624114
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Build a Breast Cancer Prognosis Pipeline with the Power of Spark and Scala

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women each year, leaving others in various stages of the disease. Lately, machine learning (ML) has shown great promise for physicians and researchers working towards better outcomes and lowering the cost of treatment. With that in mind, the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Data Set represents a combination of suitable features that are useful enough to generate ML models, models that are able to predict a future diagnostic outcome by learning from predetermined or historical breast mass tissue sample data.

Here is  the dataset we refer to:

  • UCI Machine Learning Repository: Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Original) Data Set
  • UCI Machine Learning Repository: Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic) Data Set
  • Accessed July 13, 2018
  • Website URL: https:/...
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Modern Scala Projects
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