Feature engineering
In this recipe, we'll see how to apply feature engineering on the explored data.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark cluster in any one of the modes, that is, local, standalone, YARN, or Mesos. For installing Spark on a standalone cluster, please refer to http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html. Also, include the Spark MLlib package in the build.sbt file so that it downloads the related libraries and the API can be used. Install Hadoop (optionally), Scala, and Java.
How to do it…
- After data exploration, the next step is to perform feature engineering. Let's try to apply feature engineering and make the data ready for analysis.
- From the available attributes, we can see that the ...
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