January 2020
Beginner to intermediate
618 pages
13h 57m
English
In this chapter, we are going to learn what big data is and how big data technologies can be used in the context of artificial intelligence. We will discuss how big data can help accelerate machine learning pipelines. We will also discuss when it is a good idea to use big data techniques and when they are overkill, using some examples to further our understanding. We will learn about the building blocks of a machine learning pipeline that uses big data and the various challenges involved, and we will create an environment in Python to see how it works in practice. By the end of this chapter, we will have covered: