Scala Data Analysis Cookbook: Navigate the world of data analysis, visualization, and machine learning with over 100 hands-on Scala recipes (pdf)

Description

About This Book

• Implement Scala in your data analysis using features from Spark, Breeze, and Zeppelin
• Scale up your data anlytics infrastructure with practical recipes for Scala machine learning
• Recipes for every stage of the data analysis process, from reading and collecting data to distributed analytics

Who This Book Is For

This book shows data scientists and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Scala for quality and scalable data analysis.

What You Will Learn

• Familiarize and set up the Breeze and Spark libraries and use data structures
• Import data from a host of possible sources and create dataframes from CSV
• Clean, validate and transform data using Scala to pre-process numerical and string data
• Integrate quintessential machine learning algorithms using Scala stack
• Bundle and scale up Spark jobs by deploying them into a variety of cluster managers
• Run streaming and graph analytics in Spark to visualize data, enabling exploratory analysis