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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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Sarang VK Sarang VK
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Ankit Shukla Ankit Shukla
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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

Graphs in Spark


The ability to effectively visualize data is of paramount importance. Visual representations of data help the user develop a better understanding of data and uncover trends that might go unnoticed in text form. There are numerous types of plots available in Python, each with its own context.

We will be exploring some of these plots, including bar charts, density plots, boxplots, and linear plots for Spark DataFrames, using the widely used Python plotting packages of Matplotlib and Seaborn. The point to note here is that Spark deals with big data. So, make sure that your data size is reasonable enough (that is, it fits in your computer's RAM) before plotting it. This can be achieved by filtering, aggregating, or sampling the data before plotting it.

We are using the Iris dataset, which is small, hence we do not need to do any such pre-processing steps to reduce the data size.

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The user should install and load the Matplotlib and Seaborn packages beforehand, in the development...

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