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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785280849

Length 796 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scala

Tools

Apache Spark

Concepts

Big Data

Authors (2):

Karim

Sridhar Alla

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introduction to Scala FREE CHAPTER

2. Object-Oriented Scala

3. Functional Programming Concepts

4. Collection APIs

5. Tackle Big Data – Spark Comes to the Party

6. Start Working with Spark – REPL and RDDs

7. Special RDD Operations

8. Introduce a Little Structure - Spark SQL

9. Stream Me Up, Scotty - Spark Streaming

10. Everything is Connected - GraphX

11. Learning Machine Learning - Spark MLlib and Spark ML

12. My Name is Bayes, Naive Bayes

13. Time to Put Some Order - Cluster Your Data with Spark MLlib

14. Text Analytics Using Spark ML

15. Spark Tuning

16. Time to Go to ClusterLand - Deploying Spark on a Cluster

17. Testing and Debugging Spark

18. PySpark and SparkR

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