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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788624114

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Scala

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Predict the Class of a Flower from the Iris Dataset FREE CHAPTER

2. Build a Breast Cancer Prognosis Pipeline with the Power of Spark and Scala

3. Stock Price Predictions

4. Building a Spam Classification Pipeline

5. Build a Fraud Detection System

6. Build Flights Performance Prediction Model

7. Building a Recommendation Engine

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PayPal's data platforms carry out real-time decision making that prevents fraud. Their systems crunch several petabytes every single day. Check out https://qcon.ai/ for a recent conference on AI and ML. Study their use cases and learn how companies such as PayPal leverage the latest advances in AI and ML to help combat fraud.

Explore how Kafka can work with Spark to bring near real-time fraud detection to your fraud detection procedures.

We are all familiar with Airbnb (https://www.airbnb.com/trust). Find out how Airbnb's trust and safety team is combating fraud, while they protect and grow their business model that is so critically based on trust.

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Authors (1)

gurusamy

gurusamy

Ilango Gurusamy holds an MS degree in computer science from California State University. He has lead Java projects at Northrop Grumman, AT&T, and such. He moved into Scala and Functional Programming. His current interests are IoT, navigational applications, and all things Scala related. A strategic thinker, speaker, and writer, he also loves yoga, skydiving, cars, dogs, and fishing. You can know more about his achievements in his blog, titled scalanirvana. His LinkedIn user name is ilangogurusamy

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