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Big Data Analysis with Python

You're reading from   Big Data Analysis with Python Combine Spark and Python to unlock the powers of parallel computing and machine learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955286
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivan Marin Ivan Marin
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Big Data Analysis with Python
Preface
1. The Python Data Science Stack 2. Statistical Visualizations FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Big Data Frameworks 4. Diving Deeper with Spark 5. Handling Missing Values and Correlation Analysis 6. Exploratory Data Analysis 7. Reproducibility in Big Data Analysis 8. Creating a Full Analysis Report Appendix

Spark


Spark (https://spark.apache.org) is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark started as a project by the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009, and moved to the Apache Software Foundation in 2013.

Spark was designed to tackle some problems with the Hadoop architecture when used for analysis, such as data streaming, SQL over files stored on HDFS and machine learning. It can distribute data over all computing nodes in a cluster in a way that decreases the latency of each computing step. Another Spark difference is its flexibility: there are interfaces for Java, Scala, SQL, R and Python, and libraries for different problems, such as MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph computation, and Spark Streaming, for streaming workloads.

Spark uses the worker abstraction, having a driver process that receives user input to start parallel executions, and worker processes that reside on the cluster nodes, executing tasks. It has a built-in cluster management tool...

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