{"product_id":"9781784394998","title":"Scala Data Analysis Cookbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNavigate the world of data analysis, visualization, and machine learning with over 100 hands-on Scala recipes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImplement Scala in your data analysis using features from Spark, Breeze, and Zeppelin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScale up your data anlytics infrastructure with practical recipes for Scala machine learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecipes for every stage of the data analysis process, from reading and collecting data to distributed analytics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows data scientists and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Scala for quality and scalable data analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamiliarize and set up the Breeze and Spark libraries and use data structures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImport data from a host of possible sources and create dataframes from CSV\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClean, validate and transform data using Scala to pre-process numerical and string data\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntegrate quintessential machine learning algorithms using Scala stack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBundle and scale up Spark jobs by deploying them into a variety of cluster managers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun streaming and graph analytics in Spark to visualize data, enabling exploratory analysis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Detail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will introduce you to the most popular Scala tools, libraries, and frameworks through practical recipes around loading, manipulating, and preparing your data. It will also help you explore and make sense of your data using stunning and insightfulvisualizations, and machine learning toolkits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with introductory recipes on utilizing the Breeze and Spark libraries, get to grips withhow to import data from a host of possible sources and how to pre-process numerical, string, and date data. Next, you'll get an understanding of concepts that will help you visualize data using the Apache Zeppelin and Bokeh bindings in Scala, enabling exploratory data analysis. iscover how to program quintessential machine learning algorithms using Spark ML library. Work through steps to scale your machine learning models and deploy them into a standalone cluster, EC2, YARN, and Mesos. Finally dip into the powerful options presented by Spark Streaming, and machine learning for streaming data, as well as utilizing Spark GraphX.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStyle and approach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains a rich set of recipes that covers the full spectrum of interesting data analysis tasks and will help you revolutionize your data analysis skills using Scala and Spark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135633768688,"sku":"9781784394998","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784394998_p0.jpg?v=1763726011","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784394998","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}