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Big Data Analytics
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Big Data Analytics

by Venkat Ankam, Aravind Nallan
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
326 pages
6h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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An example of machine learning algorithms

This section shows you an example of building a machine learning application for spam detection using RDD-based API. The next section shows an example based on DataFrame-based API.

Logistic regression for spam detection

Let's use two algorithms to build a spam classifier:

  • HashingTF to build term frequency feature vectors from a text of spam and ham e-mails
  • LogisticRegressionWithSGD to build a model to separate the type of messages, such as spam or ham

As you have learned how to use notebooks in Chapter 6, Notebooks and Dataflows with Spark and Hadoop, you may execute the following code in the IPython Notebook or Zeppelin Notebook. You can execute the code from the command line as well:

  1. First of all, let's create ...
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ISBN: 9781785884696