Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook. Solve real-world analytical problems

Spark has emerged as the most promising big data analytics engine for data science professionals. The true power and value of Apache Spark lies in its ability to execute data science tasks with speed and accuracy.

• It lets you tackle the complexities that come with raw unstructured data sets with ease.
• This guide will get you comfortable and confident performing data science tasks with Spark.

Spark’s selling point is that it combines ETL, batch analytics, real-time stream analysis, machine learning, graph processing, and visualizations. You will learn about implementations including distributed deep learning, numerical computing, and scalable machine learning.

• These simple and efficient recipes will show you how to implement algorithms and optimize your work.

You will be shown effective solutions to problematic concepts in data science using Spark’s data science libraries such as MLLib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and more.