Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints

Model evaluation

In the last section, we completed our model estimation. Now, it is the time for us to evaluate these estimated models to see whether they fit our client's criteria so that we can either move to results explanation or go back to some previous stages to refine our predictive models.

To perform our model evaluation, in this section, we will focus on utilizing confusion matrix and FalsePositive numbers to assess the goodness of fit for our models. To calculate them, we need to use our test data rather than training data.

A quick evaluation

As discussed before, both MLlib and R have algorithms to return a confusion matrix and even false positive numbers.

MLlib has confusionMatrix and numFalseNegatives() to use.

The following code calculates ...