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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition
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Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

by Rajdeep Dua, Brian O'Neill, Stephen Boesch, Manpreet Singh Ghotra, Nick Pentreath
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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SparkSession

SparkSession allows programming with the DataFrame and Dataset APIs. It is a single point of entry for these APIs.

First, we need to create an instance of the SparkConf class and use it to create the SparkSession instance. Consider the following example:

val spConfig = (new SparkConf).setMaster("local").setAppName("SparkApp") val spark = SparkSession   .builder()   .appName("SparkUserData").config(spConfig)   .getOrCreate()

Next we can use spark object to create a DataFrame:

val user_df = spark.read.format("com.databricks.spark.csv")   .option("delimiter", "|").schema(customSchema)   .load("/home/ubuntu/work/ml-resources/spark-ml/data/ml-100k/u.user")val first = user_df.first()
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