Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

Visualizing the face data

Although there are a few tools available in Scala or Java to display images, this is one area where Python and the matplotlib library shine. We will use Scala to process and extract the images and run our models, and IPython to display the actual images.

You can run a separate IPython Notebook by opening a new terminal window and launching a new notebook as follows:

>ipython notebook

If using Python Notebook, you should first execute the following code snippet to ensure that the images are displayed inline after each notebook cell (including the % character): %pylab inline

Alternatively, you can launch a plain IPython console without the web notebook, enabling the pylab plotting functionality using the following ...