Hands-On Big Data Analytics with PySpark电子书

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Installing Pyspark and Setting up Your Development Environment

An overview of PySpark

Spark SQL

Setting up Spark on Windows and PySpark

Core concepts in Spark and PySpark

SparkContext

Spark shell

SparkConf

Summary

Getting Your Big Data into the Spark Environment Using RDDs

Loading data on to Spark RDDs

The UCI machine learning repository

Getting the data from the repository to Spark

Getting data into Spark

Parallelization with Spark RDDs

What is parallelization?

Basics of RDD operation

Summary

Big Data Cleaning and Wrangling with Spark Notebooks

Using Spark Notebooks for quick iteration of ideas

Sampling/filtering RDDs to pick out relevant data points

Splitting datasets and creating some new combinations

Summary

Aggregating and Summarizing Data into Useful Reports

Calculating averages with map and reduce

Faster average computations with aggregate

Pivot tabling with key-value paired data points

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Powerful Exploratory Data Analysis with MLlib

Computing summary statistics with MLlib

Using Pearson and Spearman correlations to discover correlations

The Pearson correlation

The Spearman correlation

Computing Pearson and Spearman correlations

Testing our hypotheses on large datasets

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Putting Structure on Your Big Data with SparkSQL

Manipulating DataFrames with Spark SQL schemas

Using Spark DSL to build queries

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Transformations and Actions

Using Spark transformations to defer computations to a later time

Avoiding transformations

Using the reduce and reduceByKey methods to calculate the results

Performing actions that trigger computations

Reusing the same rdd for different actions

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Immutable Design

Delving into the Spark RDD's parent/child chain

Extending an RDD

Chaining a new RDD with the parent

Testing our custom RDD

Using RDD in an immutable way

Using DataFrame operations to transform

Immutability in the highly concurrent environment

Using the Dataset API in an immutable way

Summary

Avoiding Shuffle and Reducing Operational Expenses

Detecting a shuffle in a process

Testing operations that cause a shuffle in Apache Spark

Changing the design of jobs with wide dependencies

Using keyBy() operations to reduce shuffle

Using a custom partitioner to reduce shuffle

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Saving Data in the Correct Format

Saving data in plain text format

Leveraging JSON as a data format

Tabular formats – CSV

Using Avro with Spark

Columnar formats – Parquet

Summary

Working with the Spark Key/Value API

Available actions on key/value pairs

Using aggregateByKey instead of groupBy()

Actions on key/value pairs

Available partitioners on key/value data

Implementing a custom partitioner

Summary

Testing Apache Spark Jobs

Separating logic from Spark engine-unit testing

Integration testing using SparkSession

Mocking data sources using partial functions

Using ScalaCheck for property-based testing

Testing in different versions of Spark

Summary

Leveraging the Spark GraphX API

Creating a graph from a data source

Creating the loader component

Revisiting the graph format

Loading Spark from file

Using the Vertex API

Constructing a graph using the vertex

Creating couple relationships

Using the Edge API

Constructing the graph using edge

Calculating the degree of the vertex

The in-degree

The out-degree

Calculating PageRank

Loading and reloading data about users and followers

Summary

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